Thank you everyone for you comments, I forgot I had posted, scary, Im sure I spend too much time with Mum
Its all very interesting, and I guess I would put Mum in the middle to late stages, yet some days she seems so much better, she is steady ish on her feet, still potters about the house empyting her wardrobe, hiding tissues EVERYWHERE and drying out the moist toilet tissue I buy her. Yesterday she worried me as it was the first time she said that she 'didn't live here', but guess we are slowly moving down the ladder of this awful disease, which saddens me, as I miss MY mum, she's no longer there in spirit, in body yes.
Im the youngest at 45 of seven children and sadly most of her care is left to me. The others just don't bother, or have a life to lead!! I obviously don't, I work, have a partner and step son, but still prioritise my time at weekends to call in on mum. Thankfully she goes to a day centre 4 days a week and the one day in the week it is closed, we have the carer go in in the afternoon as well to spend time with her.