Every day,millions of internet users expect Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers respond some of the commonest queriesWhat is dementia? It is rarely like the word its been given. Dementia: such a pretty word, or with that soft,sweet ending like the swishing of a tail or a skirt. Even apart from its spelling and sound, “dementia” has been broadened into an unthreatening meaninglessness. How much more frightening the word “demented” is, or because it conveys what dementia is really: the violence of brain damage. It is a physical assault on the brain,whether it produces the kind of dementia that films and media like to portray, a benign forgetfulness; or whether it produces the kind that my family lived through when my stepfather lived and died with it: aggression, and panic,fear and inexplicable loathing of people he had loved. Related: One-third of British people born in 2015 'will develop dementia' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com