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DEMENTIA IS ABOUT MORE THAN MEMORY — IT’S THE LIFE STILL TO BE LIVED

When I speak to people about dementia, their minds are often set on a particular image of the disease, characterised by old age, failing memory, our lack of ability and ‘the end’. Of course, all of these are part of dementia, but those are just the negatives. No wonder there’s still so much stigma against a diagnosis when this is all that we hear.

What I’d like you to consider is everything else – the life still to be lived, relationships and how dementia is about so much more than memory.

Seven years ago I was

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