We used to call people with dementia children. They were just pottering around the neighborhood. People took them into account. But since the 1980s, it has become a common disease. Not only because of the aging population, but mainly because medical science started to label people as ‘sick’.” Professor of Dementia at the VU Anne-Mei The (1965) argues for a much more positive guidance in which people are central, not the disease.
