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Dementia: will your medical aid cover you?

IT WASN’T the retirement she’d been looking forward to. Instead of being able to travel with her husband, Lynne* found herself having to take care of him after he was diagnosed with dementia.

In time it became impossible for her to cope so she had to find a place with specialised facilities that could offer her 62-year-old partner around-the-clock attention. Sadly, the crippling cost of this ruined her financially, even though she had access to medical aid

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