Tag: dementia patients

Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.

Lost too often in the discussion about a cure has been a much more basic, more immediate, and in many ways more important question: How can we better care for those who suffer from the disease? Dementia comes with staggering economic consequences, but it’s not the drugs or medical interventions that have the biggest price […]