Overview

• The memoir Remember When: My Life With Alzheimer’s is due July 17 and offers candid accounts of Phillips’s advanced disease progression.
• One excerpt describes Phillips failing to recognise her son Nathaniel while he made tea, highlighting extreme memory lapses.
• Passages detail her delusional belief that she has been kidnapped and is being held against her will.
• The couple reveal that an additional undisclosed physical illness and its severe pain have exacerbated her cognitive decline.
• After stepping down from This Morning in spring, Martin Frizell has become her full-time carer and is using the memoir to campaign for expanded research funding and support services.