Helen's story: Caring for someone with a dual diagnosis of dementia and paranoid schizophrenia

Helen Sloan is a public contributor for the ARC Wessex Mental Health Research Hub and Social Care. She has written beautiful blogs about her experiences of caring for her mother who had a dual diagnosis of dementia and paranoid schizophrenia.

The blogs are reproduced here from the NIHR Clinical Research Network Wessex with her permission.

READ Part 1 The dual diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and dementia

READ Part 2 Living independently at home as dementia progressed

READ Part 3 Living in a Care Home