Professor Craig Ritchie, Chair of the Psychiatry of Ageing at the University of Edinburgh, UK, was told to be controversial when introducing Alzheimer Scotland's winter lecture—and he didn't disappoint. “Dementia doesn't actually exist,” he told the audience at the City Halls & Old Fruitmarket venue in Glasgow, UK, on Dec 10, 2018, setting the tone for an evening to challenge preconceptions about neurological disorders. “We've been describing people as living with dementia for the past 50 or 60 years based on diagnostic criteria, which are fundamentally outdated.
Original Article: [In Context] Dispelling myths and legends about dementia