The Christmas mum couldn't remember, the woman we'll never forget: A moving dementia story too many will relate to
May 16 to 22 is Dementia Action Week, the Alzheimer's Society's biggest awareness campaign. This year's theme is diagnosis - and to mark it, former Manchester Evening News news editor Lisa Roland has written about the impact the disease had on her own family. Both of Lisa's parents were struck by the illness. As a retired doctor, Lisa's mother, Jill Roland recognised the signs of Alzheimer's in herself and booked an appointment at the GP. Weeks later she had no memory of the original visit.


