Patients suffering from dementia should be
handled tenderly and tactfully, recommends Dr Dolly Dastoor
Text: Parinaz M. Gandhi Photos: Jasmine D. Driver
"Less than 10% of people who experience lapses of memory develop dementia,” reassured Dr Dolly Dastoor, assistant professor of psychiatry at the prestigious McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She was addressing a gathering, predominantly of senior citizens, that had assembled to hear her talk on "Alzheimer’s: Managing an Aging Mind,” under the auspices of the Women’s Entrepreneurs (WE) Wing of the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce (WZCC) at the Indian Merchants’ Chamber on January 19, 2019.
Occasional inability to recall where one has placed the keys or parked the car or why one has entered a room is a common human......