Listening to Dementia Diaries opened a positive world to a lady who is newly diagnosed

Hello.

This is Shelagh Robinson. Yesterday, I was introduced to someone who has a recent diagnosis of dementia, and is very, very frightened and very, very negative – as I guess we all are in those first weeks of dementia. She said, when we were introduced, “I don’t want to talk to you; I can’t be like you.” Of course you can’t; we all deal with dementia in our own, different ways. But I suggested to her that she went online, and had a look at some Dementia Diaries.

I saw her again this afternoon, and she gave me a big hug, and said, “That was the best thing you could have ever given to me to do. They were all so different; it was like entering a world that I could be in – I could be positive in.” Well done, Dementia Diaries.