Dr Debra Graves on her husband’s dementia diagnosis: ‘It probably didn’t help that I was in active denial’
'Not one doctor ever said the word dementia to me ... probably because I am a doctor.'
Dr Debra Graves and her husband Don were both devastated when he was diagnosed with dementia — but Don’s devastation was short-lived.
“There was a short time between when Don knew something was happening to him to when he didn’t know what was going on,” says Dr Graves, the former CEO of the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia.
