Absolutely brilliant, but I feel it needs to be backed up with more. I agree with putting in some quotes from real carers and perhaps a 'twin' film that shows the PWD in hosting mode and the (unintentionally) hurtful comments visitors, including health care professionals make before the carer gets the backlash.
As a carer, if I was to make a film, I would start with myself in a nice, sunny place, looking at a brochure of someone 'living well with dementia' and a cheery, pristine, old-fashioned white wooden signpost, pointing to 'Social Services', 'Occupational Therapy'; 'Friends and Family'; 'Respite Care' etc. I would be looking hopeful, clutching my little handful of leaflets and reassuring my PWD that everything would be fine.
Each path we took, however, would cut to show the real frustrations, delays, misunderstandings etc and cut back to end with big, metal gates with barbed wire on top, slamming in our faces. The sky would get progressively darker and thunder, lightening, rain and hail would batter us both.
We'd end up back where we started, by our sign, now battered, filthy and broken (the sign and us!)
I'd then pan out to show hundreds of people round hundreds of broken signs and people.
As a carer, if I was to make a film, I would start with myself in a nice, sunny place, looking at a brochure of someone 'living well with dementia' and a cheery, pristine, old-fashioned white wooden signpost, pointing to 'Social Services', 'Occupational Therapy'; 'Friends and Family'; 'Respite Care' etc. I would be looking hopeful, clutching my little handful of leaflets and reassuring my PWD that everything would be fine.
Each path we took, however, would cut to show the real frustrations, delays, misunderstandings etc and cut back to end with big, metal gates with barbed wire on top, slamming in our faces. The sky would get progressively darker and thunder, lightening, rain and hail would batter us both.
We'd end up back where we started, by our sign, now battered, filthy and broken (the sign and us!)
I'd then pan out to show hundreds of people round hundreds of broken signs and people.