For some, handcuffs, toys, and naughty lingerie help spice things up in the bedroom… But for one content-creating couple, opening up their relationship to over a dozen others did the job!
26.11.2023 - 04:09 / ok.co.uk
For many families, Christmas is an exciting, fun-filled time marked by colourful decorations, a delicious dinner and the constant chatter of friends and family. For hundreds of thousands of people living with dementia though, the festive season can be challenging at best and, at worst, terrifying and confusing. One in three people born in the UK today will go on to develop dementia in their lifetime, and like so many health conditions it is indiscriminate.
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There are currently 900,000 people living with the condition and numbers are set to rise. Compassion, empathy, love and support is what is needed more than ever at this time of the year and something that Grace Ryan, 23, a dementia advisor at Alzheimer’s Society from Shropshire, understands well. Her grandmother Daphne, lives with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia in a care home and was diagnosed in 2017.
"It can be very difficult to balance supporting people living with dementia professionally while having my own personal experience in the back of my mind," she said. "At Christmas we always notice an uptick in calls coming through. "I treat every individual and their journey separately.
I always remember that their story might be quite different from mine with my nana. She was diagnosed with mixed dementia in 2017 – that’s vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s – and she’s entering those more advanced stages now. "She lives in a nursing home but before dementia she was a hairdresser, loved dancing and had a massive, active, sociable personality.
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For many families, Christmas is an exciting, fun-filled time marked by colourful decorations, a delicious dinner and the constant chatter of friends and family. For hundreds of thousands of people living with dementia though, the festive season can be challenging at best and, at worst, terrifying and confusing.
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