Staci Marklin, whose doctor told her that developing early-onset dementia was unlikely, says some people don't believe her diagnosis because it's an 'old person's disease'

A new mum blamed her forgetfulness on her postpartum "mum brain" before she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's at age 46.

Staci Marklin, now 47, discovered she had the progressive condition last year, when her son, Gunnar, was only two-years-old. The former nurse, living in Knoxville, Tennessee, initially put her slight memory loss down to her pregnancy and post-partum "mum brain".

But, as time went on, she started to have more and more difficulty in finding her words and a brain scan led to her diagnosis. Staci, a former hospice nurse, said: "It's hard to say when the symptoms actually started because I w

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