Margaret thatcher dementia
Margaret thatcher dementia
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Dementia: Margaret Thatcher's Death 'Merciful,' says Norman Tebbitt
The death of Margaret Thatcher has highlighted the stigma attached to dementia and the way sufferers are treated, say medical experts.
Carol Thatcher, 59, announced in a 2008 article that her mother - Britain's longest-serving premier of the 20th century - was suffering from dementia.
She had been diagnosed eight years earlier at the age of 75.
Carol Thatcher said she first noticed the disease at lunch one day when her mother became confused about references to Bosnia, the Falklands and Yugoslavia.
As tributes poured in on the day her death was announced, Conservative politician Norman Tebitt said Thatcher's death must have come as a "merciful release" from the disease.
"It is a sadness that such an immense figure of the late 20th century should have gone - but perhaps a merciful release for her from a life which must have been increasingly empty in recent years," he said.
But his reference to "a welcome relie