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• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Caring for parents >> Interview 09 >> Feels her mother's restlessness and agitation was caused by her attempt to bring order to the chaos in her mind.

Her mother, a strong minded widow, bitterly resisted surrendering her freedom and finally had to be sectioned before being transferred to residential care. She died recently twenty years after the first signs of her dementia, in a nursing home.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Caring for parents >> Interview 11 >> Carer recognises that her mother needs medication to relieve her anxiety but is unhappy that it makes her sleep all the time.

She managed for a time to care for her mother in her own home which was nearby but eventually had to agree to her going into a nursing home.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 50 >> Describes settling his wife into a residential home.

Developed symptoms in her sixties and guessed herself what it was. Dementia progressed but Alzheimers was never actually confirmed. Separation difficulties with day care but easy transfer to residential care. Was treated with tegretol because she developed epilepsy.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Caring for parents >> Interview 18 >> Their mother got lost on the way back from Australia.

At 80 her mother was still a vigorous, independent woman. First care home insisted on her being sectioned so she was moved to a locked assessment ward. Appalled by this her daughters found a secure long-term home for her where she spent the last 18 months of her life.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Caring for parents >> Interview 09 >> Anxiety about what she might have forgotten made her mother feel there was somewhere she had to go.

Her mother, a strong minded widow, bitterly resisted surrendering her freedom and finally had to be sectioned before being transferred to residential care. She died recently twenty years after the first signs of her dementia, in a nursing home.