The confirmation this weekend that Baroness Thatcher suffers from dementia is only really surprising in its particulars - but they are moving particulars, nonetheless. The woman who, as her daughter Carol writes in her new memoir, A Swim-On Part in the Goldfish Bowl, "had a memory like a website", and was capable, during Prime Minister's Questions, of "not only reading and analysing briefs but also virtually knowing them off by heart," now often forgets the beginning of sentence by the time she has got to the end. She also thinks her home is in Grantham (her birthplace in Lincolnshire) when it is in London, and has had to be told that her husband Denis is dead.
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Early diagnosis helps patients to plan for the future - The Times 25th Augst 2008
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Thatcher's struggle with dementia - The Sunday Telegraph 24th August 2008
Aida Edemariam on Baroness Thatcher and the nature of dementia - The Guardian 26th August 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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