Terry Pratchett - Living with dementia (Part 2/4)

Terry Pratchett regarded finding he had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do his best to marshal any kind of forces that he could against the disease. Here the best selling author describes what it is like to live with his very rare type of dementia.

This video accompaned the launch of the Alzheimer's Society report called Dementia: Out of the Shadows

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http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/outoftheshadows

There are more than 750,000 people in the UK affected by dementia with numbers set to rise to 1 million by 2021. More than half of these have Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them.

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[Donnieosmond]

I am genuinely heartbroken.

[Siricerasi]

You are brilliant, please always be gobby! We love you, and everyone knows you are a fighter

[stylerz2]

You are an amazing person Terry. I have read every single one of your books and you are my idol. You seem to be the fighting type so give that Alzheimers one hell of a time.

[leoandpao]

my mother has PCA. Sometimes i find myself finishing my mother's sentences. Should I be doing that, or should I let her find herself and finish alone?