There’s a recent article in Syntagma that takes a look at an unusual feature of the waning elderly mind. Here’s a short extract:

“When we are new to this world, we often use our parents’ minds to make sense of what is happening around us. We don’t know we are doing it because we have no experience of anything else, but we absorb attitudes and opinions that we couldn’t possibly attain for ourselves. What, then, is more natural than the reverse process occurring in later life?”

Link to article: Syntagma