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• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 33 >> Describes the contact they had through music despite his wife's increasing dementia.

His wife developed multi-infarct dementia. He cared for her at home for about 6 years. When she went into residential care it took a long time for her to settle. She died in the nursing home.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 31 >> Faces up to the loss of the very little that still remains of the person who was his wife.

He gave up work to be a full time carer but when she took to her bed for several months it was decided that she needed residential care. As she refused, it was necessary to section her to make the transfer possible.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 31 >> Describes his wife's moments of lucidity and exhorts people not to feel guilty for their deficiencies as carers.

He gave up work to be a full time carer but when she took to her bed for several months it was decided that she needed residential care. As she refused, it was necessary to section her to make the transfer possible.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 07 >> Describes how his wife has gradually withdrawn from all domestic responsibilities.

Gradual onset mistaken for depression. Diagnosis given jointly to husband and wife. Slow progression. Problem with restlessness and wandering. Very involved with the local Alzheimers disease society. He tries to involve her in decisions where possible. Initially prescribed antidepressants later given trial of Reminyl. Later benifited from sedatives and sleeping tablets.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 31 >> It is becoming increasingly difficult to communicate with his wife who does not recognise her children or remember past events.

He gave up work to be a full time carer but when she took to her bed for several months it was decided that she needed residential care. As she refused, it was necessary to section her to make the transfer possible.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 31 >> Has difficulty deciding appropriate behaviour now that his wife no longer recognises him but could live another 20 years.

He gave up work to be a full time carer but when she took to her bed for several months it was decided that she needed residential care. As she refused, it was necessary to section her to make the transfer possible.

• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Caring for parents >> Interview 09 >> Gets glimpses of the person her mother used to be.

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.