Category Archives: dementia
Carers Week 2015: Radio turns the spotlight on invisible workforce
Thursday 11 June 2015
I lost count of the times I cried
Three years ago I received a series of phone calls in the night. My 85-year-old aunt, who suffered from advanced dementia, had fallen over in her bedroom. Her carer, Tsitsi, had heard the crash, wrapped her in blankets and called an ambulance. The paramedics took four hours to arrive, so Tsitsi sat with her and called me hourly with updates on her condition.
Our life under the shadow of Alzheimer’s
As Dementia Awareness Week ends, 33-year-old MATT KELLY tells how his family coped when his mother was diagnosed with early onset dementia at just 54.
My parents, Gillian and Martin Kelly, met at a pub called The Bell, in Northfield, Birmingham.
Martin was fresh home from his travels across Europe and was out with mutual friends; it was the perfect blend of love at first sight and right place, right time.
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