Monthly Archives: September 2017
Dr Frukacz, editor of the RANZCP NSW newsletter wrote in the June-July edition: EXCERPT: So, this is a book that is both informative, and enjoyable and easy to read. It is a book that can be recommended to family and carers of patients with organic brain disease to help them understand better and thereby cope better with what must at first sight seem strange and bizarre behaviour. Yet its capacity to make a topic that is usually dry and…..
At a dementia forum in Tamworth (Australia) John Quinn spoke of living a remarkably active life with early onset dementia. He recounted the difficulties he faced in the period before the diagnosis was made. John has deficits in some domains of function but retains assets in other functions. Sid, as opening speaker for the forum, emphasised that dementia is not a single ‘thing’; that there are many forms of impaired brain function which come under the umbrella term ‘dementia’; that…..
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