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Tag: Dementia

  • Dementia In The Family

    I think it must have been more than 15 years ago when my father began showing signs of Alzheimer’s Disease. We used to joke about how his two major symptoms then – forgetfulness and constipation – meant that he could never remember the last time he went to the toilet. Things only started getting awry…

  • Remembering The Recipe

    Last month I attended the premiere of the telemovie “Recipe”, commissioned by HPB, directed by Eric Khoo, starring Zoe Tay and aired on Mediacorp Channel 8 on 29 September 2013. As I’ve mentioned previously, the movie deals with dementia, and the topic was handled as sensitively as possible, and made for a good 40 minutes’…

  • Eric Khoo’s Recipe – A Film About Dementia

    I was invited to watch an Eric Khoo telemovie last Tuesday called Recipe. It stars Zoe Tay, Li Yin Zhu, Moses Lim and Jayley Woo, and deals with the topic of dementia. Why is this important? Dementia affects our aging population, and our aging population is growing. In 2005, there were about 22,000 recorded cases…

  • The beginnings of Alzheimer’s and the loss of healing

    This morning I took my father to his quarterly cardiologist’s check-up, and while waiting our turn, I spoke to him about what I’d been up to at work – about so-and-so that was his client and now mine who called me asking a favour – and he had some difficulty remembering who I was talking…