One of the ladies who comes to my meditation group has recently been diagnosed with dementia.
She is an ex social worker who was responsible for placing children in foster care but is now 85 , widowed and her only family is a brother who lives miles away.
She is still very responsible , has stopped driving because she knows she isn`t safe. She has started singing for the brain and loves it.
She has recently lost her IT skills, wasn`t able to access my reminders about the meditation groups, so now I phone her.
I phoned her this morning about tomorrow`s group.
She asked a favour.
Possibly two years ago, I went with her to buy a radio/CD player.
This morning she asked if I could help her programme it so she could listen to the radio in bed. I was quite shocked to realise this radio hasn`t been used since she bought it , so dementia must have been kicking off even then.
I`m going round soon to see what I can do.