But Then Something Happened: A Story of Everyday Dementia
Chris Carling (2012) ISBN: 978-0957307902
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'But Then Something Happened: A Story of Everyday Dementia' is a moving and highly topical memoir dealing
with a subject never far from the news, the increase in dementia in families. It tells the story of one
family hit by a double dose of dementia, as Dad, Fred, develops vascular dementia at the same time as Mum,
Mary, is struck by Alzheimer's. Fred and Mary are a quirky long-married couple with a relationship that's
unique, as all marriages are. The focus of the story is on what happens to their couple, their long love
story, as both gradually lose their minds. And on what happens to their relationship with their daughter,
Chris, the narrator, who falls into an 'amateur carer' role, groping her way uncertainly around 'the system',
learning at first hand how dementia changes everything in ordinary and extraordinary ways.
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