It is the first anniversary of my father's death. He lived with us during the last few years of his life, when he was no longer able to look after himself. When I look back on our time together, on the good times and the bad, I know we did the right thing and given the same circumstances, yes, like the song, I would do it all again.

He had been such a fiercely independent man; a lovely man. He found the loss of skills and being dependant on others very difficult. When he first came to live...