'I hope this book can show people a little about what it is like to live with Alzheimer's. How frightening and confusing it is. But also how much life can still bring joy and be valued.'
Much-loved broadcaster Fiona Phillips was sixty-one when she discovered that she had early-onset Alzheimer's disease. She had cared for her parents who had both suffered from the disease and now she was facing the same heartbreaking diagnosis – under no illusions about what it would mean for her and her family.
With courage and determination, Fiona set out to chronicle what was happening to her in the hope that her book would help others. From the tiny first warning signs - the inability to concentrate and the 'brain fog' she wrote off as the menopause - to the gradual loss of her memories and her growing confusion, she reveals how the disease progresses and how she copes. She also shares her experiences with the NHS and the systems that may seem hard for patients and their families to navigate.
Written with Fiona's trademark honesty, Remember Me is a compelling and moving memoir as well as a book offering an important insight into life with a disease that will impact many of us. Fiona Phillips presented GMTV on ITV for many years, and fronted several BBC documentaries and episodes of Panorama, although she was most proud of being one of the Daily Mirror's longest-serving columnists. She made two documentaries on her family's history of Alzheimer's, Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's and Me and My Family and Alzheimer's and was an ambassador for Alzheimer's UK.
Her TV work stopped in 2018, when she started to suffer from anxiety. In 2022, she announced that she had early-onset dementia. A heartfelt, moving and necessary book on what it is like to live with Alzheimer's, by the hugely popular presenter Fiona Phillips, that will bring comfort to anyone suffering from the early onset of the disease, as well as their loved ones.
