People aged 55 and over. The elderly men and women in the population. Old people who may be retired and suffering from chronic disease
Trajectory of dementia: is it different for people with Down syndrome?
Down syndrome is the most common cause of learning disability in the UK and increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia is well documented.
In her debut blog, Silvana Mengoni looks at a paper which uses three case studies to consider some interesting trajectories of dementia which raise some interesting questions.
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