Dementia exhibition
Before. Lockdown my wife and me attended a small outstanding positive dementia group in Amble at the Dry Water Arts Centre. There were six couples in the group, called the Curiosity Cafe, the group has now transformed into a carers group as now only one person living with dementia is in the group, one has died and the others are now being cared for in homes.
We recently produced an exhibition and I would like to invite you to share it. Please be free to pass the link on to others.
Thanks Ed
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I was really taken by the following poem - by Valerie Apted - do you know Valerie? It would be wonderful if she wants to share her poem in our Showcase - https://www.silversurfers.com/silversurfers-community-showcase/
We could publish it and then share it with our Facebook Community which has nearly 1 million followers. I am sure her words would resonate with them. Let me know what you think? Sally 🙂
Together Alone
Night after night spent together alone
Just him and me and the occasional phone
His disjointed sentences not making sense
Gets agitated, hallucinated, no wonder I’m tense
I put him to bed like his mother not a wife
Dementia has given us this strange kind of life
Both trapped together in this bizarre living hell
All I have now are memories, his physical shell
Little left of the old life which we used to share
We’re always together, he’s always there
The good old days long gone, now we’re together alone
Alone - that’s the word…so very alone