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• Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 31 >> Was slow to recognise that his wife was developing Alzheimer's.

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 >> It would have been hard to predict how dementia would affect her mother. Wishes she could have alleviated her agitation.

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 >> Women caring for partners >> Interview 22 >> Recalls the feelings she had about her husband before she understood that he was developing Alzheimer's disease.

Was cared for at home until very recently when he was admitted to residential care. Before this he attended a day centre with residential respite every 6 weeks. Later was on Exelon but taken off when he developed side-effects.