Laura,
This is when I really start to get steamy around the ears..... the disinformation is just too much. There is nothing at all to suggest that dementia even occurs until late stage, if ever, and ALL humans have mental health changes, no matter how well they handle them. Do they bar mothers from being doctors because some women get post natal depression, or diabetics because their lifestyle changes can knock them off course enough to make them depressed ? There is a word for it - discrimination.

Over here people who have real CFS with full blown depression are often seen as malingers, and efforts are made to push them into work even when they clearly are unwell - there are such double standards and misconceptions about illness.

I do hope that there is some body that protects peoples rights that can work with her, and help her maintain her right to be able to work with no stigma.