Rahul Sidhu - My Grandad’s Story: Why I Became a Neuroscientist

Dementia Researcher Blogs · Sep 7, 2026 · 12m

Rahul Sidhu narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Rahul is a regular Dementia Researcher blogger, usually writing about life as a PhD student and his work on heart disease and dementia. This time he goes back further, to his grandad, who lived with vascular dementia through Rahul's teenage years and died in 2019. Rahul describes the man his grandad was before dementia, a doctor who survived Partition and rebuilt his life in England, then walks through how the disease changed him, the family's decision to move him into a nursing home, and the stigma around dementia that he says…