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Rare Disease Day 2021: Raising awareness of childhood dementia
Feb 25 2021
In the lead-up to Rare Diseases Day – on Sunday February 28 - Associate Professor Kim Hemsley’s studies into childhood dementia are helping to unlock answers that can assist treatment of these largely unheralded conditions.
Image Credit: Flinders University
Associate Professor Hemsley leads the Childhood Dementia Research Group, within the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) at Flinders University, which is a team of medical researchers whose goal is to identify and test treatments for childhood-onset dementia.
Around the world, 700,000 children and young people are living with childhood dementia.
People are surprised and very saddened when I tell them that unfortunately yes, children get dementia too. It s typically something associated with aging,”