Adventures with Dementia: Two myths about dementia

Sunday, 7 September 2014

Two ubiquitous myths about dementia are that, once diagnosed, you can't vote and you can't drive.

These Alzheimer's Society Factsheets explain:

http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?fileID=1780

http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=144

(These factsheets discuss the situation in the UK)

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My wife has dementia. She first attended a memory clinic in 2000, aged 52, and suffered a marked decline in the autumn of 2011. Since then there have been some improvements, despite the fact that she has now (after 12 years investigation) been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

We try to follow the advice of our Guru: 'Live a Good Life'. It's not easy but there doesn't seem to be any better advice around.

I found myself saying to a friend that I would find my wife's condition very interesting if I wasn't so involved. I've realised now that I do find it, and the issues it raises, interesting. And that there's nothing wrong with that. It's one of the things that keeps me going. Not that I have any choice.

I think more and more that I'm a very rational person (though I'm not claiming that I always behave rationally). I have to try and make sense of things. In my current situation, this is quite a challenge. We all need challenges, they say.

I'm hoping this blog might help me, and maybe others, in some way. If I'm wrong, it won't last very long.

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Sunday, 7 September 2014

Two myths about dementia

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