Sharon Mattin says she started Forgotten Regulars Dementia Group in Tyldesley eight years ago.
A pub landlady who runs events for people affected by dementia said she started the group when she had nowhere to take her mother for care.
Up to 100 people with dementia and their carers now go to the free, monthly lunch which features a singer.Sharon Mattin remembers doing the first event with her mother and familyFighting back tears, she added: "When I was looking after my mother with my family, we had nowhere to take her. He spent five years caring for his wife of 53 years, Joan, after she was diagnosed with dementia but the former midwife is now in a care home."It's one of the cruellest diseases I know. You know the end result."Image caption,
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