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Memories of my mother
A beaming smile, eyes bright and pleading, arms outstretched with fingers long and wriggling with anticipation. Then, when leaning over, a hug so strong that you felt your neck would break and, inside, you knew your heart was breaking
Read Marian's story
He still remembers
For the past four years, I spent my time in the States looking after people with mental disability. But the one person who got me was my resident with Alzheimer's. He came to stay at our home after some months in hospital.
Read Michael's story
Shadow Of The Man I Used To Know
My father was diagnosed four years ago with Vascular Dementia and (like Terry Pratchett), Posterior Cortical Atrophy; although tragically, it seems, his condition developed many years before without us realising, when something may have been done to prevent it from destroying our lives.
Read Madeleine's story
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Latest poems
Identity
You no longer see your bride,
That lovely lady by your side
In all those photos in the book
The Question
The look in his eyes, it's a question,
But the words on his lips are unclear.
I cross my fingers and respond 'yes Dad',
Hoping that's the reply he wants to hear.
Read the lyrics by Carol Millar
She is
Not the incomprehensible babble of confusionNot the vacancy of eyes that cannot sense the sights before them Nor the fear, the knowledge of a grasp slipping away
Unrecognising, unclear, out of reach
She is the sweet smell of her skin, of powder and soap.
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