Not Right in the Head

Michelle Wyatt’s mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer’s like her own mother—Michelle’s grandmother—they should put her in a home and throw away the key. When she did ultimately succumb to the disease, the choice to put her in a nursing home became the only option. During the next six years, Michelle, a well-known television producer, visited her mum often while her dad kept a daily vigil in the nursing home.

What Michelle and her family discovered thro…