Jill Gascoine
Watch this postSad to read that Jill Gascoine is in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease - I used to love her in The Gentle Touch and C.A.T.S. Eyes when I was younger. Her partner, the actor Alfred Molina, has been speaking about it - it must be so awful watching a loved one slip away from you like this.
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My friends husband has Alzheimers, and I know the impact it has had on her life. non of us know what our fate is, so all the more reason to greet each day with a smile and LIVE a bit !
A couple of my friends have mums who are in the early stages of Alzheimer's and I cannot decide which is worse - losing a loved one when they die suddenly or watching them die slowly whilst they are still alive - which is what Alzheimer's is really.
Many years later, after my own parents had died, I found lots of old photos in my parents' house of me as a very young child with my Grandmother, clearly having a wonderful time in her company, so I treasure those photos as proof that she really did love me before the Alzheimer's. It's a truly terrible disease.