You can’t libel the dead, but don’t demean those living with dementia

Privacy is the sexy topic of the day. Except when it comes to the relatives of people with disabilities associated with aging, writes Terry Prone

You can’t libel the dead, but don’t demean those living with dementia

Privacy is the sexy topic of the day. Except when it comes to the relatives of people with disabilities associated with aging, writes Terry Prone

SHE told me something about her husband she should never have told me. Something I didn’t need to know and was ashamed to have learned. Something so personal, so intimate, so demeaning of him that I stood locked to the floor, gobsmacked by the confidence, forgetting to breathe.

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