“Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.” — Julie Bishop Quote

“Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.”

“Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.”

“At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.”

“I spent a lot of time researching dementia, read papers on the subject, and also found a lot of dementia diaries on the Internet which were a great help in getting an insight into the disease.”

“There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.”

“I had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her life. She was in a nursing facility in my little hometown area of northern Illinois, so I got to see a lot of other patients there in various stages of the disease. I had a firsthand exposure to it in a pretty big way.”