Dementia and the burden of disbelief

There are many days when I talk to others with dementia who tell me about how they feel when people don’t believe they have dementia, or who say things like you aren’t any different to me, or I can’t see any signs of dementia in you, and so on. It is demoralising and ends up…

Dementia: A world view

“One of the greatest challenges of our time is what I’d call the quiet crisis, one that steals lives and tears at the hearts of families, but that relative to its impact is hardly acknowledged. We’ve got to treat this like the national crisis it is. We need an all-out fight-back against this disease; one…