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Dementia Friends in Canada – showing there is a “wrong type of education”

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Dementia Friends in Canada – showing there is a “wrong type of education”

This blog post comes from another blog called Dementia Vision, first posted June 7, 2015 · by . Many thanks, Shibley, for the insightful post!

Chris Roberts, who was diagnosed with mixed vascular and Alzheimer’s dementia in his late 40s, made a very focused comment yesterday in conversation with Angela Rippon at the annual Alzheimer’s Show in London.

Chris argued that we can all ‘be aware’, but “awareness is very different from education”. Continue reading →