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So this is my husband's where he sleeps now and is when he's not at the daycare

center he's here all the time because I can't move him out of this room on my own.

So it's like a hospital bed.

So it's a hospital, it's called a community bed,

but it's like a hospital bed.

So it goes right down to the floor.

And then we have these blue cushion things which go each side at night

because at one stage not really so much now he kept sort of falling out a bit. Margaret's husband Eddie has

Alzheimer's disease. Over 12 years he's progressively lost both mental and physical

ability as the condition has caused more and more brain cells to die.

For us it was very slow although I know for some people the dementia can advance much more rapidly. It was just a greater dependency which actually he didn't mind, but then I began to write down more, say I'd be going off in the morning. I think I was still working part

time then, so I'd have to write things down for him, so he knew what he had to do or wanted to do during the day. So this just sort of snowbled.

He started getting lost when he went, he loved walking, he used to go out and come back rather late and then

he started not going out so much and he's lost his speech over the last six months altogether,

although he hasn't talked in sentences for years.

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