When Linda Salloum was just 54 years old, she was diagnosed with early-onset dementia.

“She was kind, thoughtful, considerate and very intelligent,” her husband, David Salloum, recalled.

“I thought I really lucked out in terms of having Linda as my wife, because she had all the qualities you’d want in a wife and a mother.”

Her daughters were only 11 and 14 at the time she was diagnosed.

Linda was the first to notice something was wrong. David said once they had a formal diagnosis, it helped him understand the subtle changes he’d seen in her years before.

“When we got the diagnosis, I thought back to things she had done two or three years earlier and realized, OK, that’s why she did that,” he said.

Dave is sharing his wife’s story as the University of Alberta Hospital Foundation launc

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