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Ross

Ross Campbell, Scottish Dementia Working Group

Audio quote from Ross

"I'm Ross Campbell. I have a diagnosis of Dementia. I was diagnosed when I was 52."

"Dementia, it did affect my communication. At one point I'd just sit in the house, looking at the television, staring at the four walls. Then I went into groups, and got from there to work my way up to the Scottish Dementia Working Group. Then learned to go to be a speaker and through that I learned to go out and go about."

"Then I got into the habit of going out, speaking with various very good members of the group. Then I learned myself to adapt by the way the group adapt to living with dementia and not dying from it and that meant a great deal to me. Then I got the habit of learning to use my brain and adapted this phrase of 'use it our lose it'".

"Everybody has got to remember that dementia, everybody is not the same. Everybody is an individual, and they've got to be treated and respected as an individual. What offends one doesnae... what affects one doesnae affect another and what offends one willnae offend another. So you've got to remember that and keep that perspective in the balance."

"You've got to give everybody their own individual place, no matter where they are or who they are."