Sally Wainwright

There were kind of different forms of dementia.

But my mom lived with dementia for about six years.

It is hard and it does tend to fall to one child to do it.

It's horrible.

I say my mum lived for six years in a care home.

I mean, it got to a point where she needed 24-hour care.

Yeah, that's my mum's care home too.

Which I wasn't going to give my career to do that.

I couldn't have done it.

Even if I had, I don't think it would have been feasible.

I don't think I could have physically done it.

And I think one of the sadnesses that I've tried to reflect in the character of Beth is watching what your parent goes through in those six years and having to witness things that you kind of feel a child should never have to witness their parent going through.

But you do.

You do have to witness it because it's happening.

And you have to be there and you have to...

You know, see them go through things that you know they would not want themselves to be going through.

Because we don't plan.

We don't plan for it.

We don't plan for dementia.

Nobody does.