Loving husband talks movingly about wife's heartbreaking spiral into dementia

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link.Eugene continued: “I find that I am the guy with the target on my back and a lot of the time she takes her frustration out on me.

She can be quite rebellious, saying: ‘Don’t you tell me what to do.’”Eugene has watched their once wide circle of friends shrink – almost as though Roseanna’s dementia is a contagious disease they don’t want to catch.Through a self-directed support grant, a support worker visits the couple’s Coatbridge home four hours a day, five days a week, where they will colour in with her, accompany her on a walk or dance with her to her favourite tunes – glam rock tracks, Abba, T-Rex and Sweet.“The tunes seem to stick in her head,” continued Eugene.“We were playing a ’50s collection recently and ‘How much is that doggy.