General Article Wet wipe showers and washing up liquid for shampoo: How it feels to live in hygiene poverty

Topic Selected: Cost-of-Living Crisis Book Volume: 448

By Sarah Ingram

Last September, Chantel Graham made an appointment with her doctor.

Although only 38, she couldn’t understand why her memory had apparently stopped working; she would forget things, get confused and was scared that she had dementia. 

The single mum-of-two from London remembers: ‘It was little things. I was locking myself out of my bank, forgetting passwords, or they would ask me ‘what’s your memorable word’ – and I didn’t have a clue at all.

‘I was so tired. My brain would jus...

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