: On World Alzheimer’s Day, it’s time to #End The Stigma and start spreading awareness about care #IndiaNEWS One day, he missed the time of his favourite TV show. A few days later, he forgot the

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On World Alzheimer’s Day, it’s time to #End The Stigma and start spreading awareness about care #IndiaNEWS
One day, he missed the time of his favourite TV show. A few days later, he forgot the route to his most frequented bank. “It’s age,� we thought. Or did we? If I remember right, we mocked. Fast forward a few weeks more and he forgot to go for his walk, an activity he had engaged in daily, for 20 years, come rain, storm, hail.Even as mockery of the situation started slipping away from our minds, close relatives would meet him and casually say to me, “Your father has gone bonkers�.I don’t know why didn’t I confront that relative there itself. Was it stigma? I don’t know why did I not see the signs? Was it lack of awareness? I still have not figured out, why did I, the well-educated, well-travelled former journalist, not understand anything? Was it complete lack of the knowledge of warning signs?It was too late by the time the MRI reports came. The neurologist remarked. “There is no cure of something like this and certainly, very difficult to even detect it at the right time.� “What is something like this

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