Delayed diagnosis of dementia

A delayed diagnosis of dementia can reduce choices and shared opportunities with loved ones for many people, and can have a number of significant and negative outcomes. Rate of the disease may progress more quickly as reduced ability to participate in healthy lifestyle, non pharmacological and positive psychosocial interventions The person with dementia may no longer have legal capacity to make decisions…

Facing terminal illness

With the diagnosis of a terminal illness, mortality gets to sit at your table, right next to the knife and fork, up close and personal, whispering messages that you might die much sooner than you thought. You do not get to continue to view death from the large platform called life, but from the edge of…