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The time is right to focus on pre-clinical dementia – The Conversation UK

The final piece in the dementia puzzle is at the door.

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One more question, is now a regular parting shot from the son or daughter of a patient I have just diagnosed with dementia. It is dropped in just as they are about to leave almost an afterthought.
Typically, we have spent the last hour painting a picture of the road ahead for the family: the trauma of shifting from the role of a grownup child to one of a carer, a succession of losses, and ultimately the fading of the person they had once known.
In the past, the stunned family may have silently…

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