A dementia specialist, whose grandmother and father died from the disease, says she is filled with "dread" about her own future after her mother was also recently diagnosed.
Helen McDavitt, 52, from Hassocks, West Sussex, first encountered dementia in the 1990s when her grandmother, Barbara McDowell, began exhibiting symptoms. She describes her grandmother as becoming "angry", "paranoid" and "vulnerable" before ultimately succumbing to Alzheimer’s in 1997.
