You can view this programme again here – http://programmes.stv.tv/tonight/. You can also find out more about the making of the programme here.

Sue’s widowed mother, Ethel, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s six years ago and now lives in a nursing home in Ayr. Once a month, Sue makes the 800 mile round trip from London to visit her, sometimes with her daughter Holly. The film tells the story of those visits, the conversations, the daily phone calls and the little holidays the three of them go on. The highs the lows. The guilt and the tears. The laughter and the fun.

Sue says, thought long and hard about whether to make this film and expose myself, my mother and my daughter. But I realised there was something special about Mum and her Alzheimer’s because she’s taught us to laugh in the face of adversity. She refuses to be miserable or self pitying and through it all has retained her sense of humour. Everything I’d seen about Alzheimer’s was devastatingly miserable so I wanted this film to show that, in spite of Alzheimer’s, you can still laugh together and have fun.

Mum and Me is on at 10.35pm, Tuesday 20th May on BBC One Scotland.

This programme is now available to view on BBC iPlayer – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer