Yes, I agree. Whilst it's great that Casualty tackles dementia issues from time to time, it always seems to be miraculously sorted out very swiftly and neatly. I'd love to see them tackling the carer's side of things, with the patient being the exhausted, burnt out carer rather than the person with dementia they are trying to look after. Maybe they could explore further by suggesting the PWD goes into care, only to have the carer explain they've been trying to do this for the past year but SS say their PWD still has capacity so they'll only provide carers x 4 each day, leaving the poor carer on their own every night. Then they could show how the PWD turns nasty as soon as the medics leave, screaming at their carer, hitting out,etc. Then a night time bit with the PWD having hallucinations and incontinence problems all over the house and the carer...
And they'd need to keep on visiting the same story, with the same situation for at least 6 months whilst seeing the carer reach breakdown and the PWD continuing to go into host mode each time someone visits.
Last night's episode seemed unrealistic to me. They told the daughter her mother didn't have dementia though she'd had a TIA (or several) that had clearly affected part of her brain that deals with memory/recognition. As the two made friends again, it seemed like everything was going to be fine and the mother would get better. I was thinking, 'This is just the start...'
I also thought when the woman fell head first off a high bridge at the start of the programme, that she'd be very severely injured, yet she barely had a scratch! Pah.