Go to
http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/T/trouble_with_old_people/me_and_my_mum.html
to see details of new series on old age on Channel 4
Final confirmed timing for showing this programme about dementia & care of older people.
Tony Robinson's Me and My Mum
Channel 4, 27 March 9pm
In Me and My Mum, Tony Robinson takes an intensely personal look at the plight of Britain's elderly in a film about his 89-year old mum, Phyllis, who suffers from dementia and lives in a care home. she died on the last day of filming.
"I'm angry at the way old people are treated in this country," says Tony. "I feel frustrated that no one ever talks about it, and maybe I'm guilty because I am as much to blame as everyone else." In the film Tony also talks to care professionals, organisations representing the elderly and politicians about the possible solutions.
http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/T/trouble_with_old_people/me_and_my_mum.html
to see details of new series on old age on Channel 4
Final confirmed timing for showing this programme about dementia & care of older people.
Tony Robinson's Me and My Mum
Channel 4, 27 March 9pm
In Me and My Mum, Tony Robinson takes an intensely personal look at the plight of Britain's elderly in a film about his 89-year old mum, Phyllis, who suffers from dementia and lives in a care home. she died on the last day of filming.
"I'm angry at the way old people are treated in this country," says Tony. "I feel frustrated that no one ever talks about it, and maybe I'm guilty because I am as much to blame as everyone else." In the film Tony also talks to care professionals, organisations representing the elderly and politicians about the possible solutions.