'There are dark days with my husband's dementia but getting a diagnosis is key'

Emma spotted 'red flag' symptoms on a family holiday with Simon. (Image: Emma Ruscoe) In the last couple of weeks, 59-year-old Simon Ruscoe has forgotten how to turn the shower off. It is the latest effect of early-onset Alzheimer’s, which is slowly robbing him of the ability to complete simple daily tasks without support.

His wife Emma, 56, said: “It’s as if tiny little bits of him are falling off all the time - things that he could do, he now can’t.” Simon was diagnosed in January 2020, four years after Emma first began to suspect that something was wrong. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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