What I Wish People Knew About Dementia - Wendy Mitchell

What I Wish People Knew About Dementia - Wendy MitchellWhat can a diseased brain tell us about being human, living our own lives better and helping those with dementia get the best from theirs? When Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with Early Onset Dementia at the age of fifty eight, her brain was overwhelmed with images of the last stages of the disease those familiar tropes, shortcuts and cliches that we are fed by the media, or even our own health professionals. But her diagnosis far from represented the

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bestselling author of The Ashes of London

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inspiring and empowering account of the power of words to change lives

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