Dementia Is Not Suffered Just by Older Generations ; the Alzheimer's Society Is This Week Launching Its Memory Walk - a Fund-Raising Event in Derby's Markeaton Park in September Which Aims to Raise Awareness of Dementia. Today, Kelly Shorrock Speaks to a Derby Woman Who Is a Society Ambassador.

Derby Evening Telegraph › July 24, 2008

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The Alzheimer's Society is this week launching its Memory Walk - a fund-raising event in Derby's Markeaton Park in September which aims to raise awareness of dementia. Today, Kelly Shorrock speaks to a Derby woman who is a society ambassador.

Heather Roberts was only 50 years old when she discovered she had Alzheimer's disease.

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Dementia Is Not Suffered Just by Older Generations ; the Alzheimer's Society Is This Week Launching Its Memory Walk - a Fund-Raising Event in Derby's Markeaton Park in September Which Aims to Raise Awareness of Dementia. Today, Kelly Shorrock Speaks to a Derby Woman Who Is a Society Ambassador.

But rather than hold her back, the diagnosis, and her experiences since that day, have encouraged her to campaign tirelessly for the rights of younger patients.

Now the former computer lecturer is supporting the Alzheimer's Society's Memory Walk, in the hope it will raise awar...

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