Is it helpful to talk to an Admiral Nurse?  Yes, because Admiral Nurses support family carers and people living with dementia. They are qualified specialist dementia nurses.  They are among the MOST valuable resources available to carers (& their family) of somebody with dementia. They support and advise family carers with their knowledge, skills and […]

Imagine those words coming out of your mum’s mouth. I experienced this yesterday morning. I’d never heard those words from my mum before, and it was genuinely shocking. Was mum’s dementia causing this? Help, she’s trying to kill me! What can you say to that? Let me explain. I had gone in to wake mum,

I want to talk about carer’s anxiety and stress specifically my recent personal experience.

For a long time now I’ve been worried about my mother forgetting who I am as her dementia progresses. She’s been living with dementia since 2012. There are several types of dementia that cause memory loss, it’s most common with Alzheimer’s, mum’s form of dementia. Previously, mum knew who I was the majority of the

Making carers visible is the campaign message for Carers Week 2020. A carer is someone like me who cares for a family member, partner, friend or neighbour who due to physical or mental illness, disability, age-related difficulties or an addiction cannot cope without your support. Anyone can become a carer and they come from all

Today we start our 12 weeks of isolation by going into lockdown to evade coronavirus. Social distancing will probably extend further than 12 weeks. For some, this will be a time to reflect, be with family, work from home or just recharge or become stressed from isolation. For others like myself, a sole carer, life

This year I kept a journal (most of the time!) of mum’s dementia journey. I wanted to remember the good and also learn from when times were hard.  Reading it back makes me realise how much has changed in just one year. Limited mobility but more freedom Mum started this year being able to stand