MOVING stories of how families in the district have coped with dementia during the pandemic have been shared in a new short film. Commissioned by Dementia Friendly Keighley and Bradford2025 MAKE:FILM, the film hears from a number of people who were separated from loved ones with Alzheimer’s and dementia in care homes. For Keighley filmmaker Scott Coulthard it was a subject close to his heart, as he learns how to cope with his grandmother’s memory loss. He said: “The interviews were really emotional. “I heard about the difficulties of dementia not just for the person, but for the people around them. I also learned about the amount of help and support and groups there are and that carers are so much more than just workers, they have to be family.”
MOVING stories of how Bradford families have coped with dementia throughout the pandemic have been shared in a new short film. Commissioned by Dementia Friendly Keighley and Bradford2025 MAKE:FILM, the film hears from a number of people who were separated from loved ones with Alzheimers and Dementia in care homes. For Keighley filmmaker Scott Coulthard, it was a subject close to his heart as he learns how to cope with his grandmothers memory loss. Reflecting on the experience, he said: The interviews were really emotional. When you go along to these things and people are talking about something so raw, you never know how emotional it s going to get. They were all incredible.