Dementia: The Brains Trust, Episode 3 - Care villages offer new approach
9 Mar, 2021 04:44 PM
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The Brains Trust: Episode 3. Made with funding from NZ On Air. Video / Mike Scott
It s cruel, deadly and doesn t discriminate, but no one wants to talk about dementia.
Lisa Burns, national spokeswoman for Dementia New Zealand, says it s crucial we confront dementia. My grandmother died from it. So many people are affected by dementia, it s like a stone in a pond that has a huge ripple effect.
Advertisement The diagnosis of someone with dementia is just not the diagnosis of an individual, it s of a whole family, the community that s where the four out of five people affected comes from.