"Although we expect irrational behaviour and lapses of judgment from Alzheimer’s patients, we’re often puzzled by the baffling behaviour of caregivers themselves, many of whom mirror the denial, resistance, distortions, irrationality and cognitive lapses of the people they’re caring for."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/28/dinner-with-proust-how-alzheimers-caregivers-are-pulled-into-their-patients-worlds