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• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Caring for parents >> Interview 15 >> Getting used to the day centre but there were problems when she muddled which days she went.

Her mother had been an independent widowed woman. They had hoped when they were able to move her nearby that this arrangement would be adequate for several years but before long she had to go into residential care.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Caring for parents >> Interview 52 >> Learning to avoid conflict when someone denies knowing something you know for certain they have been told.

Deterioration was gradual over 14 years. Day care was gradually increased. Hospitalised when he became ill and then went into residential care where he was happy. Difficult for his wife as they had been married 74 years. She is now also in residential care.

• 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.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Caring for parents >> Interview 11 >> Describes how it was impossible to expect her mother to manage her own medication.

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.