12/26/2025
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When someone living with a dementia suddenly wants sweet foods, soft foods, or only a few favourites, people worry. But the thing is dementia affects taste, smell, and sensory processing.
Therefore food can taste bland, metallic or feel “wrong” in the mouth. Sometimes it can be too hot, too cold or too textured
This is why the foods they used to love sometimes stop working because perception is altered
Sweet flavours often remain detectable longer , which is why desserts, fruit, or sweetened foods suddenly feel safer.
The goal is not a “balanced plate.” The goal is intake without distress.
If someone eats ice cream but refuses a full meal, that’s still nutrition.
Food rules must bend when the brain changes.
Be kind.
