Before her dementia diagnosis at the early age of 51, she was told she had a rare fatal disease

It took two years for Ms Emily Ong to be diagnosed with young onset dementia. ST PHOTO: JOYCE TEO
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SINGAPORE - It was french toast, a long-time family breakfast favourite, that sparked the realisation that something was not right. Ms Emily Ong, who likes cooking for her husband and two daughters, reached out for a loaf of bread to make the toast but forgot how to do it.

"That was scary as it just came suddenly," she said of that day about two years ago.

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