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My sister suffered from FTD for the last 30 years of her life. Of course in the end she had no language ability at all. But when it first started to affect her, back in the late 1990s she had a lot of frustration. She wanted to say something, or understand what was being said to her, and she couldn't or it was very difficult. Conversations went past her and she could only pick out certain words that she still could recognize. Eventually even that became too much for her.
I believe the dementia that PCIntern is discussing (concerning Chump) is not the same type as front-temporal-dementia. Chump is losing control of his emotions, as we saw on TV yesterday, but he hasn't lost his ability to speak and process what's being said to him.
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