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One of the biggest rewards I've even had was actually a very personal experience was in fact undertaking an assessment of a man and I can remember going out there. He was a 62 or 63 year old man and I saw him and I was convinced that he had a reversible form of dementia. I met with his wife, his wife was in tears, she was seeking a nursing home for him and I said I think there is something going on that’s different. We conducted an assessment and I took him to see a psychiatrist that I had a lot of confidence in.

We took him off his medication that he was prescribed and he continued to recover and that man came to a community forum that I ran at the time around what it was like to have dementia and told a forum of I guess 150 people what it was like to have dementia and to recover from it. That was an enormously rewarding process that I felt I really contributed to someone's recover because of delirium and all sorts of drug induced states can be potentially reversible. He went on and he travelled around Australia and really had a very full and terrific life until he was around 85.