Mother aged 29 years of age diagnosed with 'Dementia' ??

[Beaaware]

www.parentdish.co.uk/2013/10/04/mum-of-two-diagnosed-with-dementia-at-the-age-of-29/?ncid=wsc-uk-parentdish-headline

Do the italics mean you don't believe the diagnosis? It's a tragic story for this woman and her family. Don't think you should be trying to exploit their pain and doubt their doctors for your own purposes.

Even very young people can get dementia.

There are many types of dementia, one of them being Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents.php?categoryID=200362

Thanks for the link, Beaaware

Very sad. Horrible at any age but even worse when so young.

I am unsure as to what you are questioning in your title?

It does happen, sadly. I remember meeting a woman in her 40s with it. Very sad for her teenage DC.

When late FIL was in a hospital ward being assesed for dementia, sadly there was a woman who had an early onset form. I was there with then 9 month old DD and the woman was actually very happy to sit and play with DD, who was remarkably calm with her so I watched and supervised. It was so sad.

Tragic and I agree it is exceptionally young. I see no reason not to believe the story.

Where does it say she has dementia as a result of getting vCJD?

OP has an agenda by the way folks....

She didn't say she had vCJD

What is her agenda?

It is unclear as to which dementia she has.

She's not the only 29 year old to be diagnosed.

What agenda?

All she ever posts are rambling messages about vCJD. She has a bit of an issue about it.....

She is highlighting a disease that is still killing people today.
She wants more action taken over it, with tests on blood before it is used in transfusions etc, what is wrong with that?

One day some of us may be diagnosed with dementia, and we may not be able to move the lower half of our bodies, and it is possible that the blanket term of dementia may not be accurate enough to decribe what we really may have.

I admire people with agendas like that, who inform the public and campaign for it and go on marches about it and try to put pressure on politicians to take more action over it. Without people like that the world would be a worse place.

But what has vCJD got to do with this poor woman? Dementia and vCJD are not the same. You do know that don't you, and far far far more people have dementia than vCJD.

If it touched us or any of our families, then we would not be able to dismiss it so glibly. Let's not criticise people who campaign for the good of all of us.

I linked to what dementia is and it encompasses lots of different conditions and one of them is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents.php?categoryID=200362

We don't know which type of dementia that woman has got from that article.

It's highly unlikely to be vCJD given the relative number of vCJD diagnoses vs those of onset dementia.... And using someone else's tragedy for your own means, scaremongering and misinforming whilst you do so is pretty low IMO, not something society should applaud.

'It's highly unlikely to be vCJD given the relative number of vCJD diagnoses vs those of onset dementia'

But she didn't say it was

dementia is a catch all term for all kinds of conditions - eg the old name for schizophrenia was 'dementia praecox' or 'early dementia' - or the old name for Alzheimers disease was 'senile dementia' - so the thread title does not tell us very much.

that is why the inverted commas are there i suppose.......

please don't assume that Beaware doesn't have their own tragedy. Thank you

titchy, have a heart. Try to think about why someone might be passionate about raising awareness of CJD before you go stomping all over the place.

I do have a heart. I also have a memory, and am aware that the OP only ever posts about the conspiracy she believes surrounds vCjD. Her old posts were full of paranoia, scaremongering and misinformation, hence why they were deleted, and why she is was presumably a little more careful with her post on this thread.

Knowing someone who has tragically been diagnosed with early onset dementia ( NOT vCJD, and not linked to eating beef, animal welfare or any Government cover-up, just an absolute random shitty hand dealt to an amazing family) I object very strongly to someone using another families' tragedy for their own nefarious purposes.