Mum's memory has noticeably deteriorated in the last 12 - 18 months. Things have come to head in these last 4 months and after several visits to the Memory Clinic mum was diagnosed, with dementia. 

Dad is now officially mum's carer. Her diagnosis meant she could have medication to try and alleviate the worst of the disease's devastating symptoms. The tablets help to a point but ultimately there is no cure.

Mum is no longer able to function 100% independently in different aspects of her personal life. She can during any given day not recognise members of her own immediate family and thinks them strangers until she is coaxed back to reality. She has trouble recalling recent events and places but remembers the long-term past. Interests that she'd always had no longer stimulate her - things like music (she has hundreds of cds), reading (she always had her head in a book), crosswords (she devoured them) and baking (there were always cakes).  

The one thing that mum does like to do presently is to walk. It helps to clear her mind and she says she could actually walk and walk for hours. This event seems fitting.

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