‘When my mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s I couldn’t face telling her the truth’

(L) Margaret’s biggest fear was being diagnosed with dementia, after her own mother had it (Picture: Supplied)

Having watched dementia take her own mother’s life, Margaret Gibson was terrified of developing the disease herself.

But when, after a weekend away in 2013, she couldn’t remember unpacking her bag, it dawned on her that she might suffer the same fate.

‘She rang me up in a panic, saying she couldn’t find her bag. I lived 10 minutes away so I went around and found it in the wardrobe,’ Margaret’s daughter Carolyn Bieda tells Metro.

‘Mum realised that she must have unpacked it, but she couldn’t remember doing so. For her, it was a moment of horror, because her mother Prudence Read Entire Article