Living with Dementia

My wife Anna developed Alzheimer's in her early 50s. These are thoughts on what it was like day to day to live with dementia, for me and for her.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Going to the Memory Walk and not finding anyone there is a bit like the phoning the Samaritans and their ringing off – which is an old Woody Allen joke.
Talking of jokes, we have a neighbour who is always wanting to have a chat. Last week he insisted on telling me an Alzheimers joke, as I walked up the road. ‘ You know how they say drinking fruit juice helps the memory. Well, people with Alzheimers forget to drink their orange juice.’ I think there may be a joke in there but not a very good one. ‘How is your wife?’ he said.

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