For many families, Christmas is an exciting, fun-filled time with colourful decorations, a delicious dinner and the constant chatter of friends and family. For hundreds of thousands of people living with dementia though, the festive season can be challenging at best and, at worst, terrifying and confusing.
One in three people born in the UK today will go on to develop dementia in their lifetime, and like so many health conditions it is indiscriminate. Famous faces such as Fiona Phillips, Julie Goodyear and the late Barbara
Windsor have all been touched by the disease. There are currently 900,000 people living with the condition, and numbers are set to rise.
Dr Tim Beanland, head of knowledge and learning at Alzheimer's Society, says: "There are also over 70,000 people with young-onset dementia, which means they developed symptoms before they were 65, and women are much more affected than man Around two in three people living with dementia are women, while two thirds of people caring for someone with dementia are female."
This story is from the November 27, 2023 edition of New UK.
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