Heart breaking stories about dementia are becoming
frighteningly more frequent in the media, but the majority of people stalwartly
persist in denial; “it will never happen to me”, “there will be a cure” or “I’m
eating right and exercising my brain to prevent it”. Unfortunately, the statistics are pretty
damning. In Canada alone, 1.12 million
individuals are expected to be living with dementia by 2038. In fact, one person is diagnosed with dementia
every five minutes. Those are intimidating
numbers even for the strongest optimist.
Perhaps it is time to start talking about the pink elephant in the room,
preparing for the possibility of developing dementia.
