Professor Anne-Mei The: ‘Relationships with dementia have to change. See the person behind the disease again’

We used to call people with dementia children. They were just pottering around the neighborhood. People took them into account. But since the 1980s, it has become a common disease. Not only because of the aging population, but mainly because medical science started to label people as ‘sick’.” Professor of Dementia at the VU Anne-Mei The (1965) argues for a much more positive guidance in which people are central, not the disease.

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