{"id":83227,"date":"2026-01-07T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83227"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:07:00","slug":"uks-youngest-dementia-sufferer-24-dies-after-cruel-illness-gave-him-70-year-old-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/uks-youngest-dementia-sufferer-24-dies-after-cruel-illness-gave-him-70-year-old-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s youngest dementia sufferer, 24, dies after &#8216;cruel&#8217; illness gave him 70-year-old brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2024-christmas-campaign-however-last-1049765111.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"UK\u00e2\u0080\u0099s youngest dementia patient d!es at 24 \u00e2\u0080\u0098with the brain of a 70-year-old\u00e2\u0080\u0099\" width=\"563\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s youngest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/latest\/dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">dementia<\/a> patient, who possessed the brain of a 70-year-old, has tragically passed away aged just 24. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/uks-youngest-dementia-sufferer-24-dies-after-cruel-illness-gave-him-70-year-old-brain\/ar-AA1TG6dn?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Britain&#8217;s youngest\u00a0dementia patient, who possessed the brain of a 70-year-old, has tragically passed away aged just 24. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Andrew-Yarham.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83229,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83227\/revisions\/83229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}