Dementia

Posted by: JamieWednesday on 23 September 2016

Such a terrible disease and to attack so precisely the ability to communicate in one who has spent his career doing just that so well, it's a cruel, cruel thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37451043

Posted on: 23 September 2016 by MDS

Terrible and cruel are appropriate descriptions for it, Jamie. Terry Jones has at least reached his mid-seventies before being struck with this awful affliction. Worse still is 'early on-set' when the condition attacks those in mid-life. Unfortunately I've had to experience the effects of that very close at hand.

Posted on: 23 September 2016 by GraemeH

Very recent experience of it too. Terrible for all concerned.