Take Care, Son

''Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?''

When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was ''a different form of forgetting''. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.

This is the touching...