Book description
â At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping
out of bed I found Mum, clothes on over her pyjamas, grumbling she was
fed up of being moved from pillar to post and was going home.â When
her mum was diagnosed with Alzheimerâ s disease, Marianne Talbot
decided she couldnâ t put her into a care home. Instead, for five
years, she looked after her mum in her own home. For nearly three of
those years she chronicled for the readers of Saga Magazine Online the
fears and frustrations, the love and the laughter, and the tears and the
traumas of caring. Now, in this heart warming book, you too can meet
Marianne, Mum, and the appalling Fatcat. You will also find plenty of
practical tips for caring for someone with dementia and on staying sane
whilst doing so, a resources and useful contacts section and Marianneâ
s reflections on caring from a distance, and on when caring comes to an
end. Written for anyone, anywhere, who has anything to do with dementia
or with caring; in reading it you will know you are not alone.
