The charity Altzheimers Research UK of which he's a patron, has launched a new blog today (Weds 18th Sept) to try and reduce some of the stigma surrounding the condition.
Sir Terry has written the first post, where he condemns what he calls people's 'pussy footing' around the issue and says no one type of dementia is the same.
The author who lives near Salisbury was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2007.
Tim Parry from the charity says money for research is vital. He said:
"Sir Terry talks about there being hundreds of thousands of types of dementia and I think what he's saying there is that each person's experience of dementia is unique so all these stories are going out often behind closed doors because people don't really seem to want to hear much about dementia. So we're hoping that the blog will get things out in the open and break down some of the stigma and some of the misunderstanding of the condition."
He added that he supported the author's call for more funding.
"Unfortunately we're still a long, long way behind other serious disease areas such as cancer and heart disease so what Sir Terry does in such fantastic way in his opening post in the new blog is just challenge us once again to think seriously about dementia, think about the massive impact it's had on this country and for everyone to do their part in helping to fund more research."
You can find the new blog at www.dementiablog.org
Article from SpireFM
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