To think that the reality of Dementia is misunderstood

[TheMustressMhor]

I think that most people cannot understand what the real day-to-day challenges are for relatives of people with dementia.

Until your elderly relative is diagnosed with this, you probably only have a hazy idea of the realities.

It has only been in the recent past that dementia has been given as a cause of death on death certificates.

AIBU to think we need to educate ourselves more?

I think that a PP's comment about how dementia is often portrayed on the television is spot on. We usually see someone who is amusingly confused.

I have never seen the reality of an incontinent, violent, hallucinating and desperate patient in a TV programme.

Or their equally desperate relatives.