I absolutely agree but this ad was just there and the headline and the jolly photo just touched a nerve. I had to read it to be able to make an informed comment about it. I thought I shall see how he gets on ‘leading a normal life’, and decided to take him into the office which his old work allows him to keep with email and computer support. He wanted to go home as soon as I parked, sighed and fretted as we had a lovely cup of coffee and cake, saw normal people etc. and then had to be cajoled into going to his room to do his computer update. I had to do it all because he has forgotten everything. The computer was SO slow, unresponsive and awful, so off we went to computer support, can you imagine how much effort it took to get him there. Of course once there he did his best to behave normally, while I explained the problem. The really nice man took it and logged on and is keeping it to sort out. On the normal life front I then stopped off to do some food shopping on the way home. Awful experience and unfortunately one I shall have to repeat next week unless I go alone. It brought home to me the agony of watching the decline week by week, because he is much worse than when I last took him weeks ago. That ‘normal life’ the ad is on about is going to a purpose built dementia day centre with games, and other things. It has nothing to do with leading life sort of life at all, it’s a dementia life. Ooff that feels better and at least I got a necessary job done!