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Jean’s story: managing emotions after a dementia diagnosis

Forward with Dementia

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This is the story about how Jean and John learned to cope after his dementia diagnosis. We’d run our own business for 35 years and just started planning our retirement. We’d always dreamed of an overseas holiday, but we also wanted to spend more time with the grandkids. John hadn’t been himself for about a year. Initially, our GP thought it was depression. John wasn’t coping at work, and everything seemed harder to do. Eventually, he had a big argument with one of our employees, and they took out assault charges against him.

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