Dementia Action Week highlights the discrimination of people living with dementia – Talking Aged Care

At the start of this year’s Action Week, Dementia Australia, peak body for people living with dementia, released survey results that found three out of four people who have dementia believe that people don’t keep in touch with them like they previously did and 65 percent believe people they know, actively avoid or exclude them.
This survey reveals how big the issue of discrimination is for people living with dementia, as well as highlighting how this behaviour impacts a person living with demen…

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