Sally Lindsay is raising awareness of dementia
My gran turned into a 5 ft 6 toddler it was awful, but there's ways of helping now
Mount Pleasant and Scott and Bailey star Sally Lindsay joins Lorraine to talk about a subject very close to her heart.
The actress is backing a joint venture by the Alzheimer's Society and Woman and Home which aims to highlight the impact dementia has on women with the condition and also those who become carers.
Sally, who is an ambassador for the charity, is helping to raise awareness of the disease in honour of her grandmother, Ellen, who was diagnosed when she was just 64. Ellen suffered a rapid and tragic decline following her diagnosis and died in 1990, aged 70.
Asked whether she worried about getting the disease herself, Sally said: “Absolutely, every day, and my mum worries about it every day - I mean my mum’s 67 now and looks great, but she worries about it all the time.
"What Alzheimer's does is takes your memories away every day and when you think about it, all we are, are our memories and our ability and both of those things are attacked every single day and it's absolutely sick. So I suppose I fight for Alzheimer's because I'm so selfish really, I’m worrying about it [for me].”
Speaking about the campaign, she said: “2500 women are working mothers and then their family member gets diagnosed and they have to take that on as well. So basically what we're trying to say at the Alzheimer's Society is that...talk to each other and listen to each other and ring people up and try and get help really, because you don't have to do this on your own.”