Is anyone else fed up with the endless advice on how to prevent dementia?
My mother who is now 88, was diagnosed with vascular dementia three years ago...almost overnight, after a series of small strokes.
It was absolutely devastating. There was no way this could have been ‘prevented’.
My mother ate well, kept active, and did not drink or smoke. I believe the reason she became ill, was because she had spent the previous five years grieving for my father, who had died in 2010. The grief never abated, and I believe the dementia was her way of coping with the loss...reality was too difficult for her to bear.
I will scream if I hear any more ‘experts’ pronounce they have the answer to this.
Passports not in the drawer I always keep them in. Turning the place upside down.