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Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie - When research becomes your reality: dementia and cancer
Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
What happens when the health conditions you study for a living arrive in your own family?
Chloe, researches why people age differently, and here she tells the story of her mum's dementia, diagnosed at 61. A heart attack followed, and then a late-found, advanced bowel cancer. The diagnosis took 18 months. Along the way came a screening test scored above the cut-off because it was administered wrongly.
Later, dementia care and cancer care rarely seemed to speak to each other. The account shows how multimorbidity plays out…
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