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Wrote about how Hollywood often misses the mark on dementia, leaning on tropes that erase the reality of the condition. “I think pop culture has conditioned us to think that the diagnosis of dementia equals the immediate loss of your own personhood in many ways,” said neuropsychologist Tom Kiely

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Dementia Doesn't Look Like How It Does In The Media, And That's Harming Us All For starters, it’s not simply absent one day and fully present the next. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dementia-portrayal-in-the-movies_l_69974ff4e4b0c988997b9ec3?87c