Blue Mountains Life

Living with Dementia

disorientation. Knocking things over. Anxious driving. Poor sensation in the fingers. Low vision. Lack of normal function. Trouble remembering new information.

These were the lifestyle challenges then 58-year-old Orange farmer Russell Martin faced increasingly before his dementia was diagnosed. “I just thought my glasses prescription was wrong all that time,” he recalls.

Russell first noticed changes to his ‘normal’ when on an African safari with his wife Lindy. “Over there it's all about solar power and batteries and so there's no good lighting, and I was

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