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When Howard Davidson started to become forgetful, his wife Trish immediately suspected he had dementia.
“I knew 100 per cent that was the way we were heading,” she said. “His father had dementia and my father had dementia, so I knew there is a huge difference between normal aging and the memory loss you get with dementia. He was deteriorating quite a bit and it was affecting his driving ability.”
But doctors were not convinced. It took six years, and repeated rounds of tests, to finally secure a diagnosis. In August last year a scan finally revealed Howard, 73, has Alzheimer’s.
Why did it take so long? He is an accomplished clarinetist and renowned composer, having spent a lifetime writing music for theatre, film and
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