Her mum had dementia. She wrote a book about it. Here’s what she’s learned

On World Alzheimer’s Day, Anthea Rowan shares dementia truths gleaned from caring for her mum and years of research and speaking to experts

Five years ago, I knew very little about dementia. It was a word I might have prefaced with the outdated word “senile”.

I could no longer put my mother’s forgetting, dropped words and confusion about where she was down to “senior moments”. This was serious, and it was clinical.

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