Nine o’clock is bedtime in the Ruscoe house. But it’s not the children 58-year-old Emma puts to bed – it’s her husband Simon, 62, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s six years ago. She is now his full‑time carer.
Emma first noticed Simon’s memory slipping on a family holiday to Greece in 2016. On one gorgeously sunny day while she and Simon were out exploring, they discussed what their two teenage sons, Alex and Ollie, might make for lunch back at the villa.
‘Not ten seconds after we had finished speaking about it, Simon turned to me and said, “What do you
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