Reinvesting in life is the best prescription

When Kate Swaffer was diagnosed with younger onset dementia (at age 49), she was advised to give up work, study and life as she knew it, put her affairs in order and investigate aged care options. Instead, she ignored this ‘Prescribed Disengagement™’, as she terms it, and reinvested in life – something she recommends to everyone diagnosed with dementia.

Read her article in the latest issue of the Australian Journal of Dementia Care.