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Dame Barbara Windsor dead: EastEnders star fought for dementia patients amid own battle

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Dame Barbara Windsor had leant her voice to dementia awareness after her Alzheimer's diagnosis. The star, who died on Thursday aged 83, called for people to "make a stand" against the incurable disease after she went public with her diagnosis in 2018.

Having been first diagnosed in 2014, she was joined in her advocacy by husband Scott Sinclair. Scott told that they were "nervous" about sharing her diagnosis with the public, but a year later they met with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Downing Street.

Barbara - "Babs" to her friends - and Scott delivered a letter to the Prime Minister with 100,000 signatures, calling for better care for dementia sufferers and claiming the system is "completely inadequate, unfair, unsustainable and in

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