What dementia can teach us
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Wednesday tea session with people living with dementia became a reminder that personhood survives diagnosis, and that human connection may matter more than perfect memory.
From the original report
DEMENTIA is one of those words that frightens us almost instantly. We hear statistics about its growing prevalence and picture only decline: fading memories, lost independence and disappearing identities.
But I sometimes wonder whether the most frightening part of dementia is not the diagnosis itself, but the story we have built around it.
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- Aug 28, 2026
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- Aug 28, 2026
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