title: Tipping into forgetfulness.
abstract: There are not many laughs in Alzheimer's. Rightly, the disease is portrayed in the media as pitiless, driving a spike into personalities and family relations. But One Life on BBC1 was different. Christine Lyall-Grant is a former copy editor for Cambridge University Press whose life is slowly unravelling. Diagnosed at the early age of 55, she has been living with the slow encroachment of dementia for ten years. Her home is papered with Post-it notes and reminders about the life that is gradually slipping from her. Her three husbands are listed on a white board in the sitting room - 'so I remember who I married'.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Allen