Dealing with dementia


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 07 Apr 2019

Dementia primarily affects older people. Eventually they will have difficulty performing routine tasks and need help with all aspects of daily life.

DEMENTIA is a group of disorders characterised by progressive loss of brain function, which affects memory, language, thinking and behaviour.

Around the world, there will be one new case of dementia every six seconds.

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