Marian Wilkinson’s plight will be painfully familiar to families across the country. After the 92-year-old suffered months of forgetfulness, growing paranoia and falls, a specialist delivered an almost predictable verdict: Marian had dementia.
She would only get worse, her heartbroken family were told.
About 120,000 people in the UK are diagnosed every year with dementia – Alzheimer’s disease being the most common type.
In Marian’s case, specialists at Bolton’s memory clinic concluded she had a combination of Alzheimer’s and vascular