// BBC UK NEWS — CRONACA
'I was angry at my husband - I didn't know he had dementia'
Helen said she thought her husband was "just being a grumpy middle-aged man"
Helen Beaumont spent years arguing with her husband before realising he had a terminal illness.
Helen, who lives in Manchester, married Clive when she was 21 and the couple had their two children two decades later.
While she expected parenthood to change things - when elements of Clive's personality appeared to shift she spent years frustrated.
She wondered why he had stopped listening, had become unreliable, was unable to get a job and had been diagnosed with depression.
About five years later, when Clive was 46, he was diagnosed with young onset dementia. He died aged 51.
Helen, now 75, said if Clive had received an earlier diagnosis they could have had "at least two years when we weren't fighting all the time".
Clive Beaumont spent more than two decades working for the army before developing young onset dementia
Since Clive's death in 1999, Helen has been working as a dementia researcher, raising awareness of his condition and continuing his legacy through her charity, The Clive Project.
She continues to tell her story because there is still "more to be done" to help dementia patients and their families, she said.