My lovely dad George has mixed dementia-Alzheimer’s and vascular. I love the man he is but I miss the man he was. People think of dementia as being forgetful and an inevitable part of ageing. It’s neither. It robs the person of themselves. Dad has changed from a vibrant chatty outdoors person full of ideas to someone who gets anxious if the phone rings or a letter arrives, angry about imagined sleights, scared to step outside. He disappears more every day along with his rational thoughts and his social awareness. We sing together- some real songs some we’ve just created. I don’t want anyone else to lose their loved one in this way or lose their own social life through caring. 

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