This video is Christine Bryden's presentation to aged care managers at Better Practice Gold Coast on 16 November 2012.
Christine Bryden was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46 in 1995. At the time she was a single mother with three girls, and was a senior executive in the Prime Minister's Department providing advice on science and technology.
Following her diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease in 1995, she wrote her first book "Who will I be when I die?" (published by HarperCollins in 1998 under her maiden name of Boden, with a revised edition by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in 2012) and has been a strong advocate for people with dementia, addressing conferences around the world and appearing in the media.
She married Paul in 1999. Elected to the Board of Alzheimer's Disease International in 2003, she stepped down in 2005. She is slowly declining, but manages, with Paul's help, to continue to talk about what it feels like and what you can do to help.
Mrs Bryden published "Dancing with dementia" in 2005 under her new married name. This was in response to many requests for updates on her new life in the slow lane of dementia. In fact it was commissioned by the Japanese publisher of her first book, for launch at the international conference in Kyoto in October 2004. It talks of how she met Paul, and describes what it is like to have dementia and what you can do to help.
Mrs Bryden now has lived long enough -- defying all medical expectations - to become a grandmother. Life in the slow lane of dementia has become fulfilling in so many ways.
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