1. Keeping Mum: Caring for Someone with Dementia Marianne Talbot Understanding the Person with Dementia: Study Day Oxford Brookes University 11 th June 2013

2. This is my Mum and Dad, Philip and Lesley Talbot, on their wedding day in November 1939

3. My parents had been married for 61 years 19 days when my Dad died in 2000

4. Caring for Dad would have been a lot easier if he had had an Enduring Power of Attorney (Now called Lasting Powers of Attorney)

5. In 1999 Mum was diagnosed with Alzheimers rdash.nhs.uk

6. In 2003 Mum came to live with me

7. Social Services became involved wlga.gov.uk

8. Things became more difficult as Mums mind fragmented actionforageing.com

9. I was exhausted lifeischange.wordpress.com

10. A time came when I couldnt care for Mum at home any more carehome.co.uk

11. Mum was in the home until, in April 2009, she died

12. Caring is not all doom and gloom…

13. www.keepingmum.org.u k Twitter: @keeping_mum Facebook:keeping mum book

14. I am delighted to talk to you today You have chosen an honourable profession and I wish you all the best I should be delighted to take questions