“There is still life after a dementia diagnosis,” one advocate with Alzheimer’s disease says. “That is what a lot of people don’t understand. I’m not sitting in my house withering away.”
As the number of people with dementia grows, more of them are speaking out to challenge assumptions about what they can and can’t do.
Dementia affects more than 55 million people world-wide, with more than double that number expected to receive a diagnosis of the chronic condition by 2050, . A group of advocates, many in the earlier stages of this condition, say that people around them often struggle with understanding the full range of symptoms.
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