Ageing happens rapidly, with huge changes in workplaces and neighbourhoods needed

Singapore is ageing and changes to our surrounding environment should support that process.

Our experience highlights the harsh reality that no one can truly know if or when dementia can strike.  ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
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When I think about ageing, I remember my beloved grandmother who lived with me until I was in my late 20s.

Ah Ma’s brush with dementia four years before she died was painful. It started innocuously, with small things like what she had for lunch or whom she had just talked to. Then she forgot my name. Later, she could not recognise me. 

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