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Dementia. Change the story.

Here’s the story of dementia: “The long goodbye. Gone. Shadows of their former selves. Victims. Not there.” The tale of dementia is so pervasive and disabling that even those people who are just diagnosed with dementia become characters in this story as well. People around them

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Laura Bowley in Dementia. Change the story.

Jun 10, 2016

Why I’m not afraid of Alzheimer’s (and what I’m really afraid of)

Not too long ago, there was an informative and passionate discussion between experts in the dementia field, about whether Alzheimer’s disease really exists or is it simply aging. Granted, diagnosis is a crapshoot; you…

See Me in Dementia

What happens when you don’t see the “me” in dementia?

If you don’t see the “me,” you see the dementia instead, and when you see the dementia, the “me” or the “I” becomes an “it.” You’re seeing a disease rather than a person.