{"id":673639,"date":"2026-05-16T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/673639\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:02:23","slug":"woman-determined-to-break-the-stigma-surrounding-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/673639\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman determined to break the stigma surrounding dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turner noticed she was becoming increasingly forgetful which prompted her to seek help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think deep down I knew that it was dementia, and it just put things into perspective so that I could move on and start to put my life in order,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She can no longer drive, and her husband takes care of the cooking, which she describes as a &#8220;frustrating loss of independence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But being the stubborn person that I am, I&#8217;m extremely passionate about breaking the stigma that&#8217;s connected with dementia so that there is the same compassion as with cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The only way I can describe it as being on a train journey, I don&#8217;t know at which stop the dementia is going to creep in and increase in my head,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But in the meantime, I&#8217;m throwing myself into art, sewing, gardening, and just basically keeping myself as active as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She adds that social interaction is also vital, which is why she goes to a weekly dementia group at St James Church in Taunton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would encourage anyone who is starting to get increasingly forgetful to go and see your GP and please get tested.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turner noticed she was becoming increasingly forgetful which prompted her to seek help. &#8220;I think deep down I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-673639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}