Baby helps dementia sufferer rediscover her voice, and it's incredibly moving

This story is incredibly moving.

Ever since her dementia diagnosis, Morleen Templeman has had trouble communicating.

Understandably, the 83-year-old gets frustrated easily as people struggle to hear what she is saying.

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"One of the biggest ways she's been affected is her speech, she'll be out there muttering and muttering but nothing is clear, only very occasionally she might say 'thank you' or 'pretty flower,” Jo Dwyer, the care manager where Morleen lives told ABC News.

However, when carer Shelly Fletcher brought her six-month-old daughter, Lola, in to visit the elderly woman, something incredible happened: Morleen rediscovered her voice.

“When Morleen sees Lola her whole body just changes, she has this really maternal energy and you can just see her shoulders become upright, she starts putting her hands out like she wants to hold Lola, her speech becomes so much more improved, she starts to talk in sentences, she'll say 'beautiful baby' or 'where's the nappy?'"

But that wasn’t the only thing that happened; the grandmother started to remember how to take care of the baby.

"I think it's that long-term memory that's still there and that amazing maternal love she obviously had for her own children, then her grandchildren," she said.

"You'll often hear ladies with dementia asking for their mum, but Morleen is the other way.

"It's that strength of maternal love and that deep long-term memory that comes to the fore.

"She was clearly an incredible mum."

We love this so much; so beautiful.