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Water main work starts on Dundas The water main as well as the city-owned portion of substandard water services on Dundas Street East from Greenwood Avenue to Woodfield Road is being replaced.

The water service is the underground pipe that brings water to water meters. It is owned by both homeowners and the City of Toronto.

Homeowners own the portion that runs from their house to the end of their property, while the city owns the part from the end of the private property to the water main.

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to renew aging infrastructure, improve water distribution and reduce the risk of water main breaks.

In the first few weeks of construction, which is expected to last until December, the contractor will move equipment on-site and prepare the work area.

Crews will then excavate the road and dig a trench to access and install the new water main, replace any city-owned water service pipes that do not meet City of Toronto standards from the water main to the private property line, and restore work areas with asphalt, concrete or >>>UPGRADE, page 8

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Dancer Peggy Baker is back in (fractured) black

New Conservative candidate named in Toronto-Danforth The Toronto-Danforth Conservatives have a new federal election candidate, Benjamin Dichter.

According to the local riding association, Dichter is a business owner who lives in the riding.

His LinkedIn profile indicates he’s a founding member of LGBTory. ca, The Rainbow Conservatives of Canada, as well as a certified gemologist and diamond grader.

Dichter replaces Tim Dutaud, who was recently removed as the Conservative Party’s candidate for Toronto-Danforth after reports on social media determined he mde prank calls posted on YouTube.

Leslieville dance artist debuts piece at Fall for Dance North JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

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conic Canadian dance artist Peggy Baker is making a rare return to the dance floor to perform a commissioned piece in the inaugural season of the Fall for Dance North festival.

For the three-day festival, which will be held at The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Baker has choreographed a seven-minute modern dance piece titled fractured black.

The number, which will have its world premiere at Fall for Dance North Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., is a collaboration featuring live musical accompaniment by violinist Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire/Bell Orchestre. “(fractured black) is extremely, high-driving energy. It’s very frenetic,” Baker said of her original piece, which she said was inspired

by Neufeld’s “abrupt, clean and exciting” piece.

During a recent interview, Baker said it was a pleasure to work with Neufeld, whom she called “a fabulous composer” and a “bright light in the classical, new music and indie rock scenes.”

Baker, the artistic director of Peggy Baker Dance Projects as well as the artist-in-residence at Canada’s National Ballet School for 25 years, is known for her intricate solo performances, which often feature classical or electronic music accompaniment.

About five years ago, she started to move away from performing to focus on developing choreographies for small ensembles.

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Peggy Baker will perform fractured black at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts next Wednesday.

In late April, Baker – who is in her 60s – presented the world premiere of her first full-evening ensemble work, locus plot.

For the first time, the 35-year dance performer did not perform in her company’s latest show.

“I have made an exception just for (Fall for Dance North),” said the eight-year Leslieville resident, who will perform fractured black for a second time Thursday, Oct. 1.

Fall for Dance North, which is inspired by New York City’s internationally acclaimed Fall for Dance festival, will feature performances by 11 celebrated Canadian and international dance companies.

The festival’s inaugural season will debut Tuesday at The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front St. E. Led by artistic director Ilter Ibrahimof, Fall for Dance North runs until Thursday, Oct. 1.

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Toronto East General Hospital will hosts its Vibrant Seniors Day on Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the G2 Conference Room at the hospital, 825 Coxwell Ave. Special guest speaker will be Wayson Choy, award-winning author and Order of Canada recipient.

The day will feature services and information, and is geared towards active aging and seniors wellness.

Call 416-469-6580, ext. 2161 for details.

a breeze at the beach: (From the top) Gary Mark gets swallowed up by his giant fish kite during Toronto Windfest 2015 Saturday at Woodbine Beach; Giant fish kites swim in the sky; Rev team flying with Dominic Guimond, left, Lisa Taylor and Normand Girard; Maria Corsetti, Patrick Corsetti & Natasha D’Costa create lots of bubbles for children to chase.

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Admission is free. All proceeds support Community Centre 55’s year-round programs.

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exhibit in aid of Nepal at Riverside gallery wPhoto

A photography exhibit to benefit Nepal will be at Riverside’s IX Gallery, 101-11 Davies Ave. until Oct. 2.

Travels in Nepal features images by photographers Ariel Estulin and Louis Au, who are teaming up with the Planeterra Foundation to raise funds for relief in Nepal, which experienced devastating earthquakes in April and May. Visit www.f11project.com.

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Seniors deserve a nation-wide care strategy T aking care of an aging senior can be a heavy burden, particularly when they’re suffering from a complex health issue.

It’s a day-to-day struggle for families and individual caregivers, but it’s also about to become a massive problem for our province and country.

According to the Canadian Medical Association, our senior population is about to double in the next 20 years and the 85 and older age group will quadruple.

Health-care issues will similarly increase, including cases of dementia.

The latest numbers from the Alzheimer Society of Canada show that 14.9 per cent of Canadians 65 and older are currently living with our view dementia. That’s projected to jump by 47 per cent in just 16 We are facing years.

This warning was delivered an impending to the editors at Metroland wave of dementia Media earlier this year by mental health professionals and it’s the reason we undertook a special investigative series on seniors and dementia, publishing this week.

We heard the difficult stories. A husband who can’t leave home with his once-perfect match because his wife now behaves like an unruly five year old. Brilliant minds, once highly respected in their fields, struggling with simple daily tasks. Children of aging parents with dementia crippled by the financial cost of quality health care. South Asian families giving up their livelihood to care for a parent at home because they’re too culturally shamed to put them in a long-term care home or even admit they have dementia.

We’re putting a spotlight on the issue – the challenges that currently exist in addressing the coming wave, but also the efforts made so far, the innovations being developed and the positive stories that offer hope for our future.

Canada needs a long-term strategy for senior health care and dementia, one that takes into account the perspectives of people currently affected by the disease and establishes sufficient funding to offer quality care. With the federal election only weeks away, it’s the perfect time to apply pressure on policy makers.

Visit www.insidetoronto.com/dementia to get a sense of the bigger picture. Then ask your local federal candidate what they propose to do to help our population as it ages.

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The good and the bad of term limits Seasoned councillors have value...

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t should hardly come as a surprise that Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon wasn’t able to summon more than a smidgen of support for her motion to place term limits on municipal politicians.

Being a city councillor in Toronto, after all, is a good gig.

Governing the largest city in the country provides interesting and varied work for the diligent.

For the vainglorious, there are plenty of opportunities to see oneself on television, hear oneself on the radio, read about oneself in the newspaper.

For the opportunistic, there are other perquisites

david nickle the city like travel and nights out at the film festival and ball games.

And for everyone seeking to pay off a mortgage in Toronto’s overvalued real estate market, there’s a six-figure salary attached.

For the cynical, that’s enough to explain the vote at executive committee on McMahon’s motion Monday to ask that term limits be included in revisions to the City of Toronto Act. But there are good arguments for keeping councillors long past their best-before date.

Toronto is a complicated government, and it makes sense that at least a few of its overseers should be well-schooled in its operations.

Given that there are no

... but not all politicians are created equal

formal requirements that a candidate for council go to councillor school before taking the job, it is essential that at least a few council members are able to contribute their experience and understanding of the place.

Indeed, some of council’s most reliable members are its veterans: people like Shelly Carroll and Norm Kelly, Pam McConnell and Denzil Minnan-Wong.

Before he stepped down, veteran councillor Howard Moscoe was able to play city hall like a well-tuned instrument that, if you agreed with his progressive politics, you’d count that a good thing.

The trouble, of course, is that not all veterans are

created equal.

Giorgio Mammoliti by way of example has been a city councillor since 1995, and in that time made a name for himself primarily as a showboater and class clown. Yet he has proven himself undefeatable in his ward, such being the power of incumbency. He is not the only one.

It is useful to wonder, then, just how much value would we lose on city council if it were made up more completely of other bright lights – people like Kristyn Wong-Tam, Josh Matlow, Mike Layton, Josh Colle come to mind – who are working in their second term?

And what would we gain in having a cadre of councillors who were treating the job as a short stretch of public service rather than a long-term career choice?

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Motorcyclist dies after Queen crash Police suspect streetcar tracks played a role in a fatal motorcycle crash on Queen Street near Greenwood Avenue Friday.

Police believe an eastbound motorcyclist was riding on the tracks for a short period of time before he veered into the path of a westbound streetcar at around 6:10 a.m.

“He lost control and was struck (by) the front left corner of the streetcar,” said Const.

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The motorcyclist, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead at 6:49 a.m.

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Mail was being stolen from open mailboxes during day time hours.

The alleged thieves, who are usually on Staff photo/ bikes and JOANNA LAVOIE sometimes A memorial dressed at the sight of like couria fatal motor- ers, would cycle crash on be paid in Queen Street either drugs or cash.

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stolen at Gerrard and Jones wMedication Toronto police have issued a public safely alert after medication was reported stolen on Saturday, Sept. 12.

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Margaret’s Housing and Support Services, a Riverdalebased organization that assists women with mental illness rebuild and reclaim their lives, will be welcoming Margaret Trudeau to its gala fundraiser, Mad About Margaret’s, Friday, Oct. 2.

The event, which will also feature a silent and live auction with comedienne Luba Goy, will take place at Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St. E. in Regent Park.

Broadcast journalist Mary Ito will host the soirée, which

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The work will take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday as well as after hours and on weekends, as required.

During construction, residents may experience dust, noise and other inconveniences.

Property owners are being asked to remove items located within city property limits such as landscaping and decorative objects.

Those with a sprinkler system within the boulevard should contact project manager Barry Budhu at 416-3920123 or bbudhu@toronto.ca – Contract #15ECS-TI-25SP. Residents are also being asked to disconnect water treatment systems, watercooled air conditioners or similar plumbing fixtures

will get underway at 6 p.m. with a cocktail reception followed by a sit-down dinner with drinks at 7 p.m.

Trudeau is set to speak at 8 p.m.

Toronto Centre MPP Glen Murray and Canadian journalist, literary critic and author Arlene Perly Rae will serve as the evening’s honourary co-chairs.

Tickets cost $200 or $1,500 for a table of eight. Call 416463-1481, ext. 118 to RSVP or visit http://margarets.ca/ madaboutmargarets

Volunteers sought to count hawks The Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station is looking for volunteers to assist with counting hawks.

Depending on the weather, counts usually take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the

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To get involved, email ttpbrs@trca.on.ca or call 416661-6600, ext. 5233.

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The city-hired contractor may also need to access homes to complete a preconstruction survey and install shut-off valves.

From time to time, some water disruptions may be required. The contractor will give at least 24 hours advance notice.

Pedestrians and cyclists can also expect some road and sidewalk access restrictions in the construction work zone, however, access for emergency vehicles will be maintained.

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While the Games ended Aug. 15, time was needed to remove 220,000 pieces of furniture, fixtures and other items as well as dismantle temporary structures such as the dining hall, the medical clinic and the welcome pavilion, Waterfront Toronto – the tripartite waterfront redevelopment agency – explained in its latest newsletter.

As planned, the buildings

that were used to house more than 10,000 athletes and officials from 41 countries as well as the roads will become part of the new mixed-use Canary District neighbourhood.

The construction of the residential and other buildings was completed in February but the interior spaces must now be retrofitted from their interim use to their permanent use.

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student residence, the Canary District condominiums and the amenity retail spaces.

Work will also be completed on the 82,000-square-foot, LEED Gold-certified Cooper Koo YMCA. The facility is expected to open its doors in June.

During this conversion phase, the site – located in the West Don Lands near Cherry Street and Eastern Avenue – will remain off-limits.

This closure, which will also impact Mill Street and Front Street, east of Cherry Street, is being done to allow the completion of remaining roadwork including the Cherry Street TTC extension and the

installation of traffic signals at intersections as well as permit the unrestricted movement of materials and construction vehicles around the site.

Cherry from Mill to Front as well as Old Eastern Avenue will re-open Sept. 30.

The northbound lane of Cherry from Lake Shore to Mill Street be closed in the near future for four to six weeks for water main work

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Annual costs of dementia will “It was heartbreaking to see increase from $33 billion today we lost this very importo $293 billion by 2040 says ASC, tant strategy because posing an overwhelming threat one Liberal MP was to the country’s health-care not paying attention,” system and economy.

Gravelle said.

Mimi Lowi-Young, the The deciding vote CEO of ASC, is pushing for a could have also come A METROLAND national dementia strategy that from Conservative MP MEDIA SERIES will prevent persons living with Joe Preston who initially dementia and their caregivers from voted in favour, but then PART 1 OF 3 being pulled into the undertow of this changed his vote to a nay. wave.

Gravelle was inspired to champion a She calls dementia a “non-partisan issue and strategy after watching his mother battle health priority” and has asked the main political Alzheimer’s disease until her death in 2003. parties to include a national dementia strategy “When my mom had dementia, we didn’t in their platforms leading up to the Oct. 19 know enough,” he said. “We didn’t understand federal election. ASC also just launched it and at the time we thought it was just age. But its ‘Raise your Voice’ civic engagement it’s not age, it’s a disease.” campaign to encourage those affected Though she voted against Gravelle’s bill, in by dementia to speak to candidates October 2014 Health Minister Rona Ambrose about why a national strategy is so announced $31.5 million in funding for critical.

Alzheimer’s research and committed to With just under a month to go working toward a national strategy to fight until voting day, the NDP have the “impending loom” of dementia. pledged to invest $40 million THE 2015 FEDERAL BUDGET includes over four years in a Canadawide strategy, focusing on a commitment to continue supporting screening, diagnosis, support innovation in health care and dementia and research. The Green Party, research. The government proposes to through its National Seniors provide up to $42 million over five years to Strategy, has also committed Toronto’s Baycrest Health Sciences to supto a national plan for dementia port the establishment of the Canadian - though no funding details have >>>WORKING, page 15 been announced.

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2 Providing a surveillance system and evidence-based information on all aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias to inform best practices.

3 Enhancing the competency and capacity of those delivering dementia care.

4 Increasing awareness about dementia risk factors, early diagnosis and timely interventions.

5 Strengthening the integration and co-ordination of care and service delivery across the health-care continuum.

6 Recognizing family caregiver needs and developing supports that provide options and flexibility.

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To learn more, visit www.alzheimer.ca

DEMENTIA ADVISORY GROUP GIVES A VOICE TO THOSE AFFECTED

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Mary Beth Wighton at the 2014 Walk for Alzheimer’s in Kitchener.

A fervent group of people living with dementia is out to prove life does not end with a diagnosis.

The Ontario Dementia Advisory Group (ODAG) was formed in 2014 with the purpose of giving people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias a voice in shaping Ontario’s healthcare policy.

The five-member group is erasing the assumption that people living with dementia are unable to communicate their needs, wants and perspectives. They are working with the provincial government to develop an Ontario dementia strategy that will impact the province’s aging population.

Mary Beth Wighton is a retired owner of a recruiting firm. She was diagnosed with probable frontotemporal dementia in 2012 at age 45. As a member of ODAG, she shares the triumphs and challenges she faces with her partner and daughter through writing and speaking engagements. Here’s what she has to say:

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If you don’t hear it from the people experiencing it, they just become numbers on a spreadsheet.

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Wouldn’t you As soon as rather put in you switch from a ramp and your home into some dementia- long-term care, friendly devices your finances are in a home, than out the window. put someone in a room?

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In 2011, 747,000 Canadians were living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias - that’s 14.9 per cent of Canadians 65 and older.

Here are some stats that show how the dementia burden on Canadian society will begin to accelerate:

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By 2031: If nothing changes, 1.4 million people will have dementia in Canada - a 47 per cent increase from 2011 levels.

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Today, the combined direct (medical) and indirect (lost earnings) costs of dementia total $33 billion per year.

By 2040: That’s expected to climb to $293 billion a year, if Canada maintains its current path.

In 2011, family caregivers spent in excess of 444 million unpaid hours looking after someone with cognitive impairment, including dementia.

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This figure represents $11 billion in lost income and 227,760 full-time equivalent employees in the workforce.

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By 2040: Family caregivers could spend 1.2 billion unpaid hours per year.

Source: Alzheimer Society of Canada; www.alzheimer.ca

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Since 2006, the government has invested more than $860 million in support of neuroscience research, allotting $182 million for the prevention, diagnosis and care of dementia.

However, Lowi-Young said more needs to be done.

A national strategy would ensure someone living in Northern Ontario would receive the same kind of service as someone in Vancouver, B.C. She said objectives of the national strategy should include more investment and focus in research, better integration, co-ordination and accessibility of primary, community and home-care across the country, improved training of health-care workers and better supports for family caregivers.

The ASC has requested a total of $150 million over five years to create and fund the Canadian Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Partnership, which would bring together researchers, Alzheimer societies and federal and provincial governments to develop and implement a Canadawide plan.

“We need to take these objectives and make them real,” Lowi-Young said. “We need to prepare now. We can’t wait for the future.”

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cases to 255,000, according to the Alzheimer Society of Ontario.

Efforts are underway that may help diffuse the province’s dementia time bomb.

In November 2014, Premier Kathleen Wynne and Health Minister Eric Hoskins mandated Indira Naidoo-Harris, the Halton MPP and parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Health and Long Term Care, to develop a comprehensive Ontario dementia strategy.

“It’s critical we start planning for our future today. It’s going to involve research, supports for caregivers and care partners, but it’s also going to involve educating people,” Naidoo-Harris said in an interview.

Her mandate includes championing more research and innovation to better understand the disease,

supporting the implementation of 25 new memory clinics across Ontario (designed for early dementia detection and prevention), and working across levels of government and agencies to identify ways to expand supports to family caregivers.

The politician watched her fatherin-law battle Alzheimer’s and calls it an “extremely painful and emotionally draining” experience.

“It was very hard for our family to sit by and watch one of the smartest men that we knew slowly lose the ability to speak and express himself,” she said.

An advisory board of more than 30 experts has been formed to bring together key stakeholders from Alzheimer societies, the Ontario Long Term Care Association, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and community care access centres, among

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others.

David Harvey, chief of public policy and programs initiative for the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, is part of that board and said it is critical to have people at the table who are experiencing dementia first-hand.

“Our focus has been developing a strategy that enables persons living with dementia to have a voice in articulating what their needs are and what the solutions might be moving forward,” he said.

The Ontario Dementia Advisory Group (ODAG) consists of people living with dementia whose motto is “nothing about us without us.”

They have been working with Naidoo-Harris on the Ontario strategy and will help government create policies and procedures through first-hand perspectives.

ODAG member Bea Kraayenhof is a retired nurse who has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for 15 years.

She said dementia should not be politicized and that Ontario needs to prepare for the “tsunami” by implementing a set of rules for long-term care homes and health-care agencies to follow.

“The people in government now making the policies will be the ones living those policies,” she said. “If they’re lucky enough to live long, it’s probably going to happen to them.”

An initial meeting was held in July to collect opinions and by 2020, more than jumping off points on how to best go about building a personA QUARTER OF A MILLION centered model of care. seniors in Ontario

ONTARIANS OVER 65 IS LIVING WITH

of this national puzzle. In five years, the province expects to see a 22.5 per cent jump in dementia cases, bringing the total number of provincial

dementia

will be affected...

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Families need more support to keep loved ones with dementia at home Beverly Verwey believes home is where the heart should stay.

In 2007, she gave her mother, Betty, the option to move into a retirement home or to live with her in her Newmarket home. Betty chose the latter.

Verwey watched her mother’s early signs of dementia progress to the point where Betty no longer recognized her daughter.

Betty became blind and was later diagnosed with breast cancer.

In 2012, Verwey retired early from her job with the Canadian Red Cross to stay home and take care of Betty. The local Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) provided 12 hours per week of personal support worker (PSW) help.

She had a front row seat to gaps in the home care system, and noticed inconsistencies in PSWs’ implementation of her mother’s daily exercise routine, a critical component to her physical and mental health.

“The family caregivers need some sort of respite,” she said. “They have to trust that the support worker they’re leaving their loved one with is going to do the right thing.”

She believes students in college PSW programs need more time in the classroom and doing clinical work.

“The PSWs take a four-month course, then they have a short practical part where they work in a long-term care home,” she said.

She said an occasional evaluation of PSWs’ skills, attitude and work ethic needs to be implemented.

According to Verwey, an overhaul of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is needed: “Funding, tools and resources from the government should be allocated to families who are keeping their family member at home.”

Betty died in January 2014 at the age of 94.

by LAURA DASILVA

...that is approximately the combined populations of Oshawa and Waterloo

COMING NEXT Part two, to be published next week, offers the perspective of a former ICU nurse and member of the Ontario Dementia Advisory Group whoʼs been living with early onset Alzheimerʼs disease. Her experience in dealing with a lengthy diagnosis and mismanaged treatment has her advocating for a patient-centred policy for health professionals dealing with dementia.

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