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Outlook: My brilliant dad: how dementia deepened our bond

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Sandeep Jauhar

10/07/2023 GMT

My brilliant dad: how dementia deepened our bond

BBC World Service - Outlook, My brilliant dad: how dementia deepened our bond

Sandeep Jauhar learned everything he could about Alzheimer's to be a better carer

Cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar was in denial about his father's Alzheimer's symptoms. But then as a doctor and doting son, he began to research the brain to become a better carer.

When Prem Jauhar was just eight years old, he left Pakistan with his family during the partition of India. A brilliant scientist, he got a green card to the United States 20 years later and became a leading light in the field of genetically modifying crops to feed the hungry. When Prem started to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, his son Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist, was in denial at first. But then, in order to become a better carer to his dad, Sandeep set out to investigate what happens in the brain as our memory falters. Although being one of his dad's carers was challenging, it ultimately brought them closer. Sandeep has written a book about his experience called My Father's Brain. If you've been affected by any of the issues in this interview, help is available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline

British actress Thelma Ruby has been entertaining audiences on the stage and screen for almost 80 years. Singing, dancing, comedy and tragedy, the 98-year-old has played almost every kind of role and has performed all over the world. She tells Outlook's Dany Mitzman why - even in her nineties - she still has no plans to retire. Her one-woman show being performed in London is called That's Entertainment. 

The track “Don’t Tell Mama” from Cabaret was composed by John Kander and Fred Ebb and was performed at the Palace Theatre in London in 1968.

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(Photo: Sandeep Jauhar with his father Prem. Credit: Sandeep Jauhar)

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