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Solicitor Chelsea Shore, 28, is from Nuneaton near Coventry. Her great-grandmother, Violet, was diagnosed with dementia in 2018
From the moment I was born, my great-grandmother Violet and I were close. She lived two streets away from us in Nuneaton and as a child I’d often cycle over to her house. I loved our Friday night sleepovers, when she’d teach me how to bake butterfly cakes or arts and crafts. There might have been 65 years between us, but she was my best mate, and when I grew up I’d take her for fish and chips every Saturday. She always gave such great advice, whether it was about boyfriends or my career.
At first, we put Granny Vi’s memory lapses down to old age, but in 2018 she was diagnosed with dementia, after suffering a seizure. When I heard the news, I was utterly devastated. We were so close and I just couldn’t bear the thought that one day she wouldn’t know who I was.
Over the following months, she became more forgetful. “I’m all over the place,” she’d say and her beloved books and puzzles became a source of frustration because she couldn’t process the words. Then, one day I walked into her house and found it boiling hot because she’d forgotten to turn off the oven. She loved baking, but we had to disconnect the cooker. It just wasn’t safe.
I tried desperately to help Granny Vi hold on to her memory. I visited four times a week, swapping her puzzles for brightly-colored children’s versions. We tackled dementia-friendly word searches and I bought her a kids’ oven with an automatic timer. We’d bake jam tarts and it was such a joy to cook together again.
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