There are 900,000 people in the uk living with dementia. tonight, in the first of two special reports, our correspondentjeremy cooke tells the story of a couple in newcastle whose experience of the condition, and navigating the social care system is echoed across the country meetjo wilson. hi, jo are you washing up? i m trying to get something out for my dinner. that s drjo wilson, phd. high flying, globe trotting career woman. she was damn good at what she did and had an international reputation. all of that, and now it s come to this. do you know how old you are? do i know how old i am? of course i know how old i am. how old are you? how old am i? i don t know, because i haven t made my mind up yet. alzheimer s is cruel devastating, isolating. my number one girl. so this isjo s story
Diagnosed with dementia in the uk are not getting the help they need. the government says it is providing an additional £500 million to local authorities for adult social care this winter. this is to speed up care assessments and access to care packages. our correspondentjeremy cooke and producer claire kendall have spent days filming withjo, who has alzheimer s disease, and her husband bill, who ve have been struggling to navigate the social care system at their home in newcastle. meetjo wilson. hi,jo. are you washing up? trying to get something out for my dinner. that s drjo wilson, phd. high flying, globe trotting career woman. she was damn good at what she did and had an international reputation. all of that, and now it s come to this. do you know how old you are? do i know how old i am? of course i know how old i am. how old are you? how old am i? i don t know, because i haven t made my mind up yet.
Dominic, the relationship between the monarchy in the commonwealth is at an interesting point. let s focus on kenyan particular because there is a special relationship there, given that that s where the queen found out that she was to be queen. she was told about her father s death in a tree house in kenya where she was on tour. that s where her reign began. she has a particular connection to kenya, to africa in south africa where is where in 1947 she gave that speech in 21 where she committed herself to a lifetime of devotion and duty to the people of the empire, the imperial family, i think she called it. and that is something she stayed true to throughout her life. that commitment is something that is hugely important, was hugely important to her. it s what setter on the path of not only devotion and duty but the path as a globe-trotting monarch. she invented the idea of being
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