"A ground-breaking new book on sensory changes associated with dementia, written by Agnes Houston MBE with Dr Julie Christie, and published by HammondCare, is being launched on May 9 2019 at the inaugural International Conference on Palliative Dementia Care (ICPDC) at Europa Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Talking Sense is the culmination of more than a decade of research by Agnes Houston after she was diagnosed with younger onset dementia in 2006. She found that not only was there little support for continued independence, but what support there was had virtually no awareness of the common experience of sensory change.
“It was as if I had been given a diagnosis, was assessed cognitively, medication monitored and left to my own devices,” Ms Houston said. “Instead, I chose to go on a quest for knowledge to understand what was happening to me. Surely, I was not the only one having these sensory changes?”
Ms Houston is known internationally as an advocate for people living with dementia and in 2016, she completed a Churchill Fellowship to continue her learning about the often overlooked issue of sensory challenges."
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