'The drastic changes in her personality made me feel like I was caring for a stranger.' Susan Bruce, who is calling for more support for carers across the country, has shared her story of caring for her mum's dementia 👇
In 2012, Susan Bruce started noticing her 78-year-old mother behaving in an unusual way.
‘Mum enjoyed listening to people and hearing their stories, which undoubtedly helped her when comforting the many patients she would interact with. She was known as a loving and loved member of the community,’ Susan, originally from Perth, tells Metro.co.uk.‘I once found a chicken breast in the back of a drawer and I increasingly noticed other irregular occurrences,’ Susan, now 64, explains.
She continues: ‘I found that, although the help may have been available, I still ended up having to fight for the help mum needed. ‘Throughout this time, I kept thinking about how I would have dealt with this situation if I was an elderly woman in her eighties. I strongly believe that I would not have managed if this was the case.’However, being a dementia carer came with numerous other difficulties, challenges and strains.
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