{"id":131637,"date":"2024-10-02T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131637"},"modified":"2024-10-03T06:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T10:21:54","slug":"inews-anna-richardsons-angry-honest-film-lays-bare-the-relentless-cruelty-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131637","title":{"rendered":"(Inews) Anna Richardson\u2019s angry, honest film lays bare the relentless cruelty of dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this year, full-time carer <\/a>Mary hid all the knives in her home. Her husband Richard, nine years after his diagnosis of Alzheimer\u2019s <\/a>aged 55, had become angry and unpredictable. For the first time, Mary, a former fashion designer, was scared of him. Over the course of two quick weeks, it became apparent that it was no longer safe for her to live in the same house and in August, she made the heartbreaking decision to move him into a care home<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary and Richard\u2019s story was one of several told in Channel 4\u2019s hour-long documentary Anna Richardson: Love, Loss & Dementia<\/em>. Best known for her work presenting headline-grabbing shows on provocative subjects like Naked Attraction<\/a><\/em> and The Sex Education Show<\/em>, Richardson wanted to shine a light on what she views as another taboo topic: dementia<\/a>. \u201cWe are not talking about the fact that it\u2019s a crisis,\u201d she said of the disease which brutally entered her life with her father\u2019s diagnosis of vascular dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formerly a leading figure in the Church of England, 83-year-old Jim now lives semi-independently in an assisted living facility. The film opened with Richardson receiving an alert while on holiday \u2013 Jim had suffered yet another fall. Aware that he is still in the relatively early stages of\u00a0symptoms\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 he knows who she is and retains his sense of humour (pretending to row a boat as Richardson pushed his wheelchair around his hometown) \u2013 she acknowledged what is to come: \u201cEither one day, he will have a catastrophic stroke. Or he will just get incrementally worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>

In this one-off doc, @AnnaRichardso<\/a> shares how this debilitating disease affected her family after the onset of her father\u2019s vascular dementia – exploring myths, social taboos and the new drugs that provide hope for the future. #LoveLossAndDementia<\/a>, 10pm on @Channel4<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/3AjCbKxl3J<\/a><\/p>— 4Viewers (@4Viewers) October 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>