Carrie Williams talks to us about her 28-year love story with her husband Gareth who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and later frontotemporal dementia in his 50s.
Carrie and Gareth were both police officers when they met at a convalescent home where they were recovering from injuries. They fell in love, got married and had two children together. In 2013, Carrie started noticing Gareth was struggling to find his words. After an initial misdiagnosis of depression, they discovered that Gareth had Parkinson’s disease and had had it for 12 years.
In this heartbreaking episode, Carrie talks to us about the impact of Gareth’s diagnosis on the family, the challenges of caregiving and the resilience they demonstrated in the lead-up to Gareth’s death in the middle of the Covid pandemic and subsequently.
