A moving video on social media platform Instagram has gone viral in which an elderly woman suffering from dementia somehow recognises her son, and hugs and kisses him on her 90th birthday.
The son had visited the mother on her birthday but had not expected her to recognise him given her condition.
Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering, and reasoning — to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities.
The video has been shared on Instagram by “Good News Correspondent” with caption: “My brother surprised mom for her 90th birthday.”
The video starts with a man knocking on the door and his mother is sitting on the couch. After greeting each other, he asks that how is she, and she responds with a heartfelt voice, “I am fine, thank you.”
The man then asks her, “Recognise me who I am?” “Joey, you are my Joey,” the woman says with her face lighting up.
“I love you my Joey,” she further says holding the face of the man in the palms of her hands.
This video has received 2,800 likes and over 25,000 views so far.
“I would have passed out from crying,” a user commented on the post.
