My sister died 10 years ago. Here’s what I wish I had known about dementia when she was alive

My sister died 10 years ago. Here’s what I wish I had known about dementia when she was alive

Source: The Guardian

I think back to my 20-year-old self and my sister, lost in her imagined worlds, and I feel compassion for us both

When my sister was 21, she was diagnosed with dementia. She had survived a malignant brain tumour diagnosis when she was 10, but her cancer was inoperable and sat directly on her hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory formation.
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