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The Alzheimer's Society of the United Kingdom has produced an important short film to help children and young people understand more about what may be happening to a person with dementia (see ‘Kids' Dictionary’ for definition). The film, entitled ‘About my grandfather…about my grandmother’, features children of all ages speaking about their experiences of having a grandparent with dementia.
The clip shows how devastating it can be when a person you love has Alzheimer's disease. The children in the film speak openly about how the disease has impacted them. The film was launched on July 7, 2004 to coincide with Alzheimer’s Awareness Week® in the United Kingdom.
Quotes from the film:
‘When my grandfather forgot my name I felt like he didn’t actually love me anymore, which is why he was forgetting me. But then I found out it was because of dementia.’
‘When I heard Granny had Alzheimer’s I didn’t really know what it was and then my mum explained it to me, saying that it’s like when part of your brain starts to malfunction and you start to forget things.’
‘My grandfather talks about things from the past, when he was a young kid and the games he used to play, but if we ask him what happened yesterday he will not remember.’
‘My granny sometimes asked me when her sister was coming over to see her, and she’d forgotten her sister had actually died. So we had to explain it to her that she’d died and my granny would get really upset and tell us that she didn’t know and we hadn’t told her.’
For further information about the film or the children it features, please contact Hannah Laslett at hlaslett@alzheimers.org.uk
Click on the play button to start the video!
(Used with the permission of Julia Cream, Head of Public Affairs, Alzheimer’s Society, Gordon House, 10 Greencoat Place, London, England)
