Category Archives: Keeping Mum

All things related to the release of Marianne Talbot’s book – ‘Keeping Mum’.

Buy Keeping Mum: Caring for Someone with Dementia

“At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping out of bed I found Mum, clothes on over her pyjamas, grumbling she was fed up of being moved from pillar to post and was going home.”

When her mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Marianne Talbot decided she couldn’t put her into a care home. Instead, for five years, she looked after her mum in her own home. For nearly three of those years she chronicled for the readers of Saga Magazine Online the fears and frustrations, the love and the laughter, and the tears and the traumas of caring.

Keeping Mum: Caring for Someone with Dementia: Marianne’s book on caring for her Mum

Posted on May 24, 2013 by webmaster

Marianne Talbot’s book ‘Keeping Mum: Caring for someone with Dementia’  was published on the 3rd April 2011. “At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping out of bed I found Mum, clothes on over her … Continue reading →

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Launch of Keeping Mum: Caring for Someone With Dementia at Headington Care Home

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Marianne

Here is a video of the party I held to launch Keeping Mum: Caring for Someone With Dementia, at my Mum’s nursing home: The Headington Care Home. It was lovely to see Elisa, the Director, again, and many of the carers … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Marianne Talbot’s Keeping Mum Area

Posted on March 6, 2011 by webmaster

I cared for my parents, both of whom had dementia, for 14 years. I brought my Mum, who had Alzheimer’s, to live with me during the last five years of her life. Over that time I wrote a blog for … Continue reading →

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