Argus title : It’s not just old people who need help with dementia
I don’t like the word ‘dementia’. It has connotations of mumbling mad people with matted hair and glaring eyes locked in Victorian Attics.
In the 1950s Hollywood movies regularly depicted demented people as dangerous, malevolent and inhuman.
So it’s hardly surprising that there is now widespread public fear about the range of conditions associated with what is currently known as ‘dementia’. Continue reading