When Bruce Taylor was mistakenly diagnosed with ‘burnout’ at 54, his wife Claire never suspected that he was in the early stages of dementia ‘It was a Friday evening and my husband Bruce and I were sitting down to watch Have I Got News for You, as we always did.
But that night, as the panellists kept cracking jokes, I noticed Bruce wasn’t laughing. He seemed to have switched off. I assumed he was just preoccupied with work, but as the weeks went by even our eldest son Alex, then 15, noticed a difference.
Bruce and I met in 1986 while working at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. I was an intensive-care nurse and Bruce was a senior registrar.
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