Just wanted to anecdote:
I took my mum with Shearings to a hotel near Loch Lomond for Christmas, quite a while back. It was then I noticed she was beginning to be very forgetful.
Both she and I had a superb time! It was far beyond what I had hoped.
The holiday was made so wonderful, I would like to say, by our Driver/Host and his very lovely and funny Wife, who could not have been kinder, more attentive without intruding, and just brilliant in seeing that we had everything we needed!
Although it is a while ago now, I remember it almost every day and I am so grateful that this Shearings holiday was something my mother enjoyed before her last illness made such things impossible.