“Fading Away”

Summary At that stage he couldn’t walk, only shuffle, he was very, very depressed, just crying all the time. And he couldn’t swallow… He would say, “My mind is a hell to me.” He wouldn’t be engaged in a conversation… All his symptoms are side effects of the antipsychotics, and they disappeared after he went off [them]. – Susan Ryan describing her father in 2013, June 2019 Susan Ryan was describing Ray, her 78-year-old father, when he was being chemically restrained in an aged care facility in 2013. Ray is one of approximately 450,000 people estimated to be living with some form of dementia in Australia.…

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