“People with young onset dementia’s needs are not being met”
– by Tommy Dunne
“Hello this is Tommy reporting. I’d just like to clear up what young onset dementia is, there seems to be a lot of confusion about this. People with symptoms start from before the age of 65 are described as having young onset dementia and there are more than 63,000 of us with this condition. That’s just in the UK. It is important to know that people with younger onset dementia are much less likely to have memory problems than older people with dementia. Instead they may experience problems with language, vision and behaviour or personality. Those are just some of the symptoms. The circumstances of younger people with dementia might be quite different from older people. For example, they may be in paid employment and have young teenage children living at home. Because of this, people with young onset dementia need age-specific and disease relevant provision of care, these needs are not being met by existing services.”
