I have been reading a news article that dementia is not being treated as a terminal illness by the medical profession. I have been my mum's sole carer for over three years now and although she is 85 years of age, none of our GP'S are the slightest bit interested in her dementia. Whenever I take her to see a doctor or nurse, they never even mention it and don't even ask how she is.. They will not discuss it with me unless she is in the same room, and although she has Alzheimer's, she is not deaf or stupid and it is like discussing someone behind their back. If, god forbid, she was suffering with terminal cancer they would be all over her like a rash. I know there is nothing they can do to make the dementia go away, but it would just help greatly if people stopped pussy-footing around the subject and acknowledge that she has Alzheimer's. I thought that attitudes to mental disability had changed, but it seems that the medical profession are the last ones to accept that dementia sufferers and carers need to talk about it openly and not hide it away in some sort of mental cupboard.