I would rather my children's generation have a full awareness of facts,insight about dementia,certainly not shock tactics for the sake of education,but definitely not a sugar coated Disney version of life with Dementia as it offers nothing more than a blanket to stereotype and still stigmatise mental health/Dementia.
The recent adverts for discouraging smoking,by gory/Goryfying a cigarette were shock tactics-albeit,in your face this may happen to you if you start smoking/do not stop smoking,It didn't send people running for cover.
I'm not saying let's horrify Joe Public for the sake of dementia education,but this is the 21st century and people are still uncomfortable with talking about,asking for help and many do not know what the many facets of dementia entails,it is still stigmatised,and seen by some walks of life as shameful,or a dirty secret in the family,not exactly we ought to be propagating..
I would rather watch adverts/read/listen to adverts that educate people,let's have all the facts,to RAISE awareness,than an odd random sugar coated pill of a campaign any day!
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