After 39 years of marriage and only my perspective from the point of view of a wife, my husband would not have initiated that type of intimacy if I had dementia. He might snuggle, hold me, or comfort me.
If it is classified as rape when an individual is given something in a drink making them unable to clearly define their desires, how can someone with late stage (we don't know what stage of dementia the person had in the original post) dementia be any different in their ability to express their sexual boundaries?
This is a thought provoking thread. As we age we don't know what will happen to our minds or bodies. What we do know it is still our body, no mater how the mind may be working. Nobody is certain what a person with different forms of dementia understand or comprehend.
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