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‘We will never be the same’: Tully Smyth tells of the ‘dementia hell’ of her mother’s battle – NEWS.com.au
‘We will never be the same’: Tully Smyth tells of the ‘dementia hell’ of her mother’s battle
A year after the death of her mother Kay from early onset dementia, former Big Brother star Tully Smyth has revealed the disease left scars on her family that will never heal.Kay Smyth was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when she was 51 – and Tully was just 15.
Over the next 16 years, Tully helped her father care for the once career-driven woman as she slowly deteriorated.
Now, she is fighting to drive awareness to the disease, pointing out the damage is done to more than just the patient – and the…
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