Contented Dementia?

* From now on please don't worry about the future, stay with what you already know and love. * Appoint the person you most trust as your advocate and ask them to read this book while you get on with your life.     * Forget about the diagnosis. You're very good at forgetting now, so use this skill to forget about dementia and get on with enjoying your life once more

These are messages in Oliver James's wonderful book Contented Dementia and, now that I can't any longer ignore the fact that my mother has this condition, I would like to dedicate these wise words to her.

The trouble is that just now I feel rather more daunted and less able to cope than I did when I was trying to row us both up the river aged 2 1/2.