Dementia and Alzheimer’s cast a particular spectre of fear – the stripping away of personhood somehow more difficult to face that those conditions that we perceive as purely a physical aliment.
Christine sharing of her own experience is therefore powerful, and the challenge of drawing out that this is not simply a fact of life associated with ageing is important.
Some of the ways in which social life becomes restricted – that in order to manage energy she had to refuse “invitations to noisy restaurants, and big groups of people, sticking to smaller places, quieter nights, and just a few friends” - points to a need for some deeper thought around how we create dementia friendly settings.
It is good that Christine also shares the role of her faith in her response to her condition, even if some of the ways she framed that were not ones that spoke to me personally.
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