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Louis Theroux spends time with America's growing population of dementia sufferers and sees how families maintain relationships with their loved ones even as the building blocks of personality and character are eroded. America's baby boomer generation dream of an idyllic retirement. Physically healthy, financially sound, their reward for decades of hard work is a life of sunshine, golf and gardening. But the shocking truth is that most of America's older people will spend their retirement years either with dementia or caring for someone who has it. Phoenix, Arizona is home to thousands of retirees and a growing number of these now have dementia. Gary is 69 and a resident at senior living campus Beatitudes. He no longer remembers that he is married to his wife Carla, and believes he's back serving in the military. As Carla struggles to maintain a relationship with someone whose memory is disappearing, dementia proves no barrier to Gary trying to form new relationships with several other women. Then there's 89 year old Nancy, an ex-New York model, with a personality to match. At the request of her husband John, Louis has his hands full as he takes over the role of carer for a day. But dementia is not just a disease of the elderly. It can strike people in their 40s and sometimes even earlier. Louis meets 49 year old Selinda and her family who are coming to terms with the devastating diagnosis of Alzheimer's. As her nine year old daughter Caleigh struggles to understand why her mother is different to all the other mothers, husband Glen is having to make some difficult decisions about the future.
Directed by Dan Child; produced by Emma Cooper and Rachel Coughlan.