What gets in the way of the life you want to lead?

Dementia may be life-changing, but does that mean it needs to be life-ending?

There remains a common threat in public perception that a diagnosis of dementia means that life is over. Some people with dementia report being told at the point of diagnosis to go home, get their affairs in order, and prepare for the end of life.

Do you think that sounds extreme? Dementia is still occasionally described in the media as 'the living death'. This of course makes people with dementia the 'living dead'.

Try maintaining your humanity with that in your head, not to mention in the heads of others.

In this podcast people with dementia discuss the extent to which their dementia  is a barrier to their lives. They explore the other things that they can get in the way which often have nothing at all to do with dementia, and everything to do with discrimination either by commission or by omission.

They also explore those things which support them in living their lives and which spark joy.

It is in no small measure a celebration of solidarity, community and most of all friendship.