TY - JOUR T1 - Mum and me JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 519 LP - 519 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X319585 VL - 58 IS - 552 AU - Lesley Morrison Y1 - 2008/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/552/519.abstract N2 - After the recent documentary on BBC1, ‘Mum and me’, about Ethel, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's, and her family, I felt very pleased and privileged to be able to ring and speak to my own aged mum. What had she thought about the programme? ‘I really admire her daughter for making such a truthful film. And it's scary’.It is, of course, reasonable to be scared of Alzheimer's, both on an individual and a societal level. What this film did was to confront (some would say, in a confrontational way) the reality of living with the disease and to help families doing so to acknowledge and share the difficulty, the fear, the frustration and the pain.The filmmaker, Sue Bourne, … ER -