Nathan D'Cunha's first lesson about dementia did not happen in a lecture theatre, but through watching his grandmother's health decline in a relatively short amount of time.
Shortly after his grandmother died, his mother started to show similar symptoms. Dr D'Cunha's family quickly found themselves lost in a maze of conflicting advice and scarce information.
Dr D'Cunha said watching his family struggle through mixed messages and a long, confusing path to diagnosis "spurred [him] on into the work that [he does] now", because "there's still many people around Australia getting mixed messages and going through a really long process of receiving a diagnosis".
