Not the end of the world, we embrace it

SIMON Ruscoe has forgotten in recent weeks how to turn off the shower in his home.

- Hanna Geissler

It is the latest effect of early-onset Alzheimer's, which is slowly robbing Simon, 59, of the ability to complete simple daily tasks without support.

His wife Emma, 56, said: "It's as if tiny little bits of him are falling off all the time things that he could do, he now can't."