DEAR DEIDRE: I’M LOSING MY WIFE TO EARLY DEMENTIA
MY wife is living with early onset dementia and it’s breaking my heart.
I’m 61 and she is 57. She was diagnosed with it last year.
She now doesn’t understand a single word I say.
She can’t read any more and all the joy has gone from her life.
She watches kids’ cartoons but just stares at the screen. I don’t know how much she understands.
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I am her primary carer so I don’t get much of a break.
Our daughter is living with her boyfriend so I can’t involve her. I now feel so sad about the whole thing.
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DEIDRE SAYS: That is so tough.
Dementia is one of the cruellest diseases because the person you fell in love with is no longer really there but they need a lot of demanding care.
Please don’t feel you must shoulder this alone.
Does your daughter live close enough to be with her mum one day a week?
Dementia UK (dementiauk.org, 0800 888 6678) can help you access all the support you are entitled to.
Its Admiral Nurses will really understand the strain you are under.
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