Mum Was Crying As She Could Not Think How to Lock Door ; This September, the Alzheimer''s Society Will Be Holding Its Second Fund-Raising Memory Walk in Derby''s Markeaton Park. Today Jonny Birkin Speaks to a Woman Whose Mother Is Battling the Disease, to Find Out the Effect of Facing Up to a Diagnosis of Alzheimer's.

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FOR Wendy Goodall, the tell-tale signs of her mother's dementia crept up on her family slowly.

It started with a few forgetful moments, when Doreen Poxon would struggle to remember where things were or details of conversations she had with her daughter.

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Mum Was Crying As She Could Not Think How to Lock Door ; This September, the Alzheimer''s Society Will Be Holding Its Second Fund-Raising Memory Walk in Derby''s Markeaton Park. Today Jonny Birkin Speaks to a Woman Whose Mother Is Battling the Disease, to Find Out the Effect of Facing Up to a Diagnosis of Alzheimer's.

But over the course of a few years, the warning signs grew more pronounced.

The 82-year-old would ask her daughter where ...

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