Living with Alzheimer' ; Joyce Baker Was in Her 40s When Her Husband Peter Started to Notice Changes in Her Behaviour. Greg Tindle Finds Out How the Couple Have Coped with the Diagnosis That She Is Suffering From Alzheimer's

South Wales Echo › November 05, 2009

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TEACHER Peter Baker gradually started to notice that all was not well with his wife Joyce. She just didn't seem to be her normal self and was becoming very forgetful.

Joyce was in her late 40s and had been forced to give up her teaching career after a series of major operations which left her unable to cope in a busy classroom. But with her husband wrapped up in his duties as a deputy headmaster, often working late into the evenings, Joyce was regularly left alone for hours on end and when Peter got home he became increasingly worried about Joyce's condition.

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Living with Alzheimer' ; Joyce Baker Was in Her 40s When Her Husband Peter Started to Notice Changes in Her Behaviour. Greg Tindle Finds Out How the Couple Have Coped with the Diagnosis That She Is Suffering From Alzheimer's

He said: "It seemed to start with anxiety caused by being on her own while I was at work and this got worse and worse. Then I noticed that Joyce was becoming forgetful, and needed a lot of reminding about what had happened ...

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