Dementia systematically dismantles a person, one memory at a time

When Harriet McKnight’s grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s she told her family, ‘I’ll always be here for you, except sometimes when I’m not’Several years ago my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. My mother called to tell me. I don’t think I really understood what it meant at the time. She’s just more forgetful? Dementia is everywhere at the moment – in films like Still Alice, in books like Goodbye, Vitamin or Th