The question  How do you cope with dementia?  My husband, George
Melly, is in the early stages of vascular dementia, the second
most common form after Alzheimer's disease. He can still sing
and do radio interviews and he can talk endlessly about
surrealism - but the other day he told me that he has no sense
of time, day or space.  Dementia costs the UK £17bn each year,
according to a new report by the Alzheimer's Society. There are
700,000 sufferers and the number is predicted to rise to 1.7m by
2050. Families often bear the biggest burden, saving the state
£6bn a year.  George has always been an absent-minded professor
type and I've always been very bossy. Now I'm super bossy. It is
difficult having to take more care of him than he wants, telling
him not to go out on his own and not to take £100 in his pocket
because he'll lose it. I spend days on my hands and knees
looking for his hearing aid. He forgets to eat. Three weeks ago
he passed out on stage in Brighton because he had started
drinking on an empty s