Martin King is well known for his upbeat and easygoing presenting style on Virgin Media, so his latest venture, a serious documentary, may come as something of a surprise.
The former weatherman has turned his attention to the deeply upsetting subject of dementia, and his knowledge of the subject is drawn straight from personal experience.
Martin’s mother Christina was diagnosed with dementia and died in 2019. His father, Martin Sr, who was in the same nursing home as her, died just four weeks earlier.
Martin has set out to document the effects that dementia has on the sufferer and on family members in his film, We Need To Talk About Dementia, and reveals the pain of not being able to tell his mother about his father’s death due to her
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