Bill Tilson sits beside his wife Blanche, who’s in her wheelchair in the dining room at Avamere Twin Oaks of Sweet Home.
He smiles at her and gently strokes her hand. Blanche gazes at his face but doesn’t say anything. She can’t, though she occasionally tries.
She’s in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease and when a visitor was present recently, for over an hour, she said nothing €“merely gazing at her husband’s face from…