Jamie Theakston

He's from a sort of different era, really.

And...

And seeing him have to sort of struggle on his own is really difficult.

Yeah, I think so.

A lot of those signs that we hadn't really, some of them, it manifests itself in strange ways.

Irrational jealousies, which you think, that's odd.

And they are akin to a sort of a... It's short-term memory loss.

It's like... Like an Alzheimer's.

It's a particularly cruel disease.

Yeah, it's losing someone and yet they're still in the same body is a very weird thing.

Yeah.

Cause I felt like I'd lost the person that I always knew.

Yes.

And, um, I think it was very difficult for my mom in her, you know, with, with her being very ill, but also as he became increasingly unwell, she found it very difficult to deal with.

Um, and, um, it is difficult because all the things that you always used to do together,

you can't do anymore and you struggle to find points of reference that you can share.

And you miss the man who he once was.

So there is a sort of grieving process that, you know, also you're going to have to go through again.

So in a way, when you have a parent who suffers from dementia, you know, you've got to do it.

You grieve that person that you've lost, and then, you know, you're going to have to go through it again when they eventually do die.