This episode of Free Your Mind focuses on dementia, exploring its impact on both patients and their caregivers. Terry Scaife, a nurse with 20 years of experience working with dementia patients, discusses the challenges faced by families caring for loved ones with this progressive neurological condition. She emphasizes that dementia encompasses over 200 subtypes, with Alzheimer’s being the most common, affecting over 850,000 people in the UK as of 2014. The conversation highlights the exhausting reality of 24/7 caregiving that family members face when supporting someone with dementia at home. Terry advocates for increased community support, better education about dementia care, and more resources for unpaid family caregivers who often struggle in isolation. The discussion covers challenging behaviors like aggression, wandering, and disinhibition, while stressing the need for greater awareness of both the vulnerability of dementia patients to abuse and the potential for them to exhibit difficult behaviors due to confusion and frustration.