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Interview 22  

Interview 22

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 70
Background: Carer is mother of four who gave up her job as a social worker to look after her husband at home. Diagnosed in 1997. Patient was an ex army major.
Brief outline:Was cared for at home until very recently when he was admitted to residential care. Before this he attended a day centre with residential respite every 6 weeks. Later was on Exelon but taken off when he developed side-effects.


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Had heard that vascular dementia could be caused by smoking.

 



I don't know how familiar you are with vascular dementias and what have you. Because well, he stopped smoking all that long time ago and when you see all these anti smoking campaigns they never mention dementia. I mean yes the heart disease, the strokes, emphysema, all sorts of other things but I've never ever seen any publicity linking smoking with dementia.

I think why, because it's the one thing which has had an effect on one of my children he, he tried to give up before but he has given up now, he said 'If that's what it does to you, no thank you.' I suppose vascular, if it's vascular it could be affected by the smoking, if it's like mini, mini strokes or whatever.
Jonathan Miller - Dementia
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