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It’s time to change the conversation
To accelerate progress towards life-changing treatments, we must also change the conversation about dementia.
Our petition at No. 10 – thanks to you!
This year you helped us achieve an incredible feat – almost 35,000 signatures asking for more funding for dementia research.
#ShareTheOrange – change the conversation
Why an orange? Because the damage caused by Alzheimer’s can lead to a brain weighing around 140g less than a healthy one – that’s about the weight of an orange.
‘Wonderful, insightful and beautifully acted’ – Old Fools at Southwark Playhouse
As someone who recently lost a loved one to dementia, I was apprehensive about seeing this play. Would it be an accurate portrayal of the effects of dementia? Would it over-dramatise its impact on relationships or, worse still, sentimentalise it?
Why Santa Forgot means so much to me
History has shown that dementia is no respecter of persons. Iris Murdoch had one of the greatest minds that the twentieth century ever produced, as a philosopher and a novelist, but she succumbed very quickly and very terribly to dementia. Santa Forgot imagines a world where not even Santa is immune to its devastating effect.