A Letter To Myself

Diagnosed with dementia in her 50s, Alison Lim fights to remember words


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When Alison Lim was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia in her fifties, a form of dementia that affects speech, she feared losing everything - her words, her mind, her active life until then. But in her daughter, Jamie Buitelaar, she found a pillar to lean on. In this episode of A Letter to Myself, Alison and Jamie recount how humour and resilience trumped darkness and despair. 

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A Letter To MyselfBy CNA