Today the Alzheimer's Society published their inportant report My Name is Not Dementia - full details at http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=200149&documentID=1339.
Importantly this focuses on the stereotypical and widespread sense that once a diagnosis of dementia is confirmed, quality of life issues for the person with dementia are not important. It also reflects on the different perspectives of those with dementia from those with a duty of care towards them.
As Sir Terry Pratchett says in his Introduction to the report:
"Dementia is all too often a fact of life, and no longer out of sight and out of mind. And it requires not just care but also understanding and, to be frank, policing as well. There is an opportunity here to give the lie to some of the clichés of care. We have to learn to be good at it. "
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