I dont watch Emmerdale, but I watched it last night as my friend who does watch it told me what a good portrayal of dementia it showed and said that yesterdays episode was a special one. I cried all the way through it. His empty eyes and sudden actions of aggression because of fear were so like my husbands - he even looked a bit like him.
My husband is in a good care home now, but this brought back with a bang all the months leading up to that - the confusion, the baffled expression when trying to work out money, or how to make a drink, the obsession that he had to see his mum (long deceased) or his babies (50 + year old men now), glimpses of recognition, then complete panic and denial of the fact he was at home, the compulsion to leave the house to "go home", the sudden outbursts of aggression when he was so confused he didnt know who I was. Watching it now to see how it pans out
I agree that all SW's should watch this and learn what the relatives really have to go through, when all they see when they visit is the "hostess" behaviour