Category Archives: Dementia

Dementia & Alzheimer’s is now one of our greatest fears as our lives are prolonged by advances in medicine. Is the distress caused to both sufferer & those who love them greater or less than losing them to a more natural earlier death?

A poem dedicated to the sons and daughters who have lost their father to dementia & couldn’t say Happy Fathers’ Day

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Sophia Moseley

I miss having to buy a card, I miss having to think what to say, I miss phoning you to let you know You’re special on Fathers’ Day. I missed the last two years of your life, I missed your … Continue reading →

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Where has my father gone? The dementia took him.

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Sophia Moseley

The non-italic lines represent my father’s rational & coherent thoughts The italic lines represent the dementia taking hold “Please don’t let them take me”. Quick call the police, we’re being murdered in our beds. “I know I’m losing my marbles” … Continue reading →

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My father has dementia and it’s driving me mad.

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Sophia Moseley

I have always believed you have to experience something personally before you can sympathise or empathise with someone. For instance, when I had my first baby, I couldn’t help but question the knowledge and advice being handed out to me … Continue reading →

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Dementia? Perhaps death is the preferable alternative.

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Sophia Moseley

I visited my father today and after 10 minutes left him alone and returned to my car in the car park in floods of tears. A huge argument? A big family bust up? I think I would have preferred either, … Continue reading →

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My memories of my grandfather are happy and enduring but will it be the same for my father?

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Sophia Moseley

I adored my grandfather, it helped being his favourite grandchild but all the same, my memories of him are happy ones and I often find myself smiling when I do something that has a link to the time I spent … Continue reading →

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A poem dedicated to all fathers suffering from dementia

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Sophia Moseley

To Remember all Fathers as They Were I remember the day When you were not far away; It never entered my mind That one day I’d find All the treasures we shared, To show that we cared, Would be buried … Continue reading →

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For all of us involved. Dementia sucks.

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Sophia Moseley

Dementia sucks. The person you love and know, The person who saw you grow, The person who moulded your mind Is fumbling for sense they can’t find. The simplest of words soon evade The everyday life that they made. The … Continue reading →

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