We Care with Rebecca Fuller

Rebecca speaks to the lovely Claire Grover-Forde who is a Support with Confidence PA. Claire has been working as a PA for four years and within the Health and Social Care sector for ten years. Claire has a wealth of knowledge on dementia and offers a great insight into the role as a professional working with people living with dementia and their loved ones. N.B: This episode was recorded in May 2020.

Rebecca speaks to the lovely Dominic Cardall about his wife of 33 years Gill. Four years ago, at the age of 52 Gill was diagnosed with Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia. A form of Frontotemporal Dementia. He shares the accelerated speed in which Gill’s condition has progressed over the past four years and how he and his lovely family have adapted to caring for her. To find out more about Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia please visit https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/progressive-nonfluent-aphasia https://www.theaftd.org/what-is-ftd/primary-progressive-aphasia/nonfluent-agrammatic-ppa-nfvppa/ You can follow Dominic on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/domc1610/

Rebecca speaks to good friend Charlotte Carp whose mum lives with a rare form of dementia: Posterior Corticol Atrophy (PCA). Useful Links from the show Charlotte is on LinkedIn Rare Dementia Support Group - https://www.raredementiasupport.org PCA - https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/types-of-dementia/posterior-cortical-atrophy PCA - https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/types-dementia/Posterior-cortical-atrophy Contact Rebecca Email info@rebeccafuller.co.uk Visit rebeccafuller.co.uk

This week Rebecca is joined by Kirsty Inman for an open and honest talk about how Kirsty managed her dad's diagnosis of both Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia from the age of 56. Contact Rebecca Email info@rebeccafuller.co.uk Blog www.rebeccafuller.co.uk Twitter - @rebeccafuller07 Instagram - rebeccafuller01 Kirsty's Details You can follow Kirsty on Twitter at @kirstyinman Kirsty's blog https://daughtersdementiajourney.home.blog Books and websites mentioned Wendy Mitchell Somebody I used to know Renee Knight The Secretary www.alzheimers.org.uk www.dementiauk.org

This week author and illustrator Nigel Baines speaks to Rebecca about his experience of caring for his late mum who was diagnosed with mixed dementia. Nigel is the author of Afloat: A memoir about mum, dementia, and trying not to drown. You can find out more about Nigel at www.nigelbaines.com

Rebecca introduces this brand new podcast for carers by carers!