'Elderly deserve dignity': Figtree dynamo calls for care funds

Zoe Cartwright
March 21 2022 - 5:00pm
Advocate for the elderly, Valma Fell with Labor candidate for Cunningham Allison Byrnes and Member for Whitlam Stephen Jones. Picture: Wesley Lonergan.
Advocate for the elderly, Valma Fell with Labor candidate for Cunningham Allison Byrnes and Member for Whitlam Stephen Jones. Picture: Wesley Lonergan.

Valma Fell's life was touched by dementia three times; first, when her brother-in-law was diagnosed with the "new illness" of Alzheimer's in the 1960s, again when another brother-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimers decades later, and finally when her own husband, former Illawarra Mercurcy general manager, Ian Fell, was diagnosed in 2006.

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Zoe Cartwright

Zoe Cartwright

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