Across the world, nearly four million people under 65 are living with dementia — a condition the medical system has long assigned to old age, leaving younger patients and their families to wander a landscape of dismissal and delay. A Curtin University study, timed to Dementia Action Week, gives voice to what spouses and partners have long known in private: they see the changes first, they raise the alarm first, and they are turned away first. The human cost of that institutional blindness — measured in lost income, fractured wellbeing, and years without answers — is the quiet crisis this resea
Study reveals diagnostic delays, support gaps for young onset dementia families
Families experience years of emotional exhaustion, financial strain, employment disruption, and social isolation while caring for loved ones with young onset dementia.