David
David goes to a social group that meets twice a month for people with dementia and carers. They have lunch at the group and do activities like dancing, singing and playing board games.
David, aged 89, has a diagnosis of vascular dementia with Alzheimer’s disease. He lives with his wife in a friendly village. He spent time working abroad when he was younger.
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David and his wife live in a rural location. He enjoys watching the birds in his garden and wildlife in the fields. David has a positive attitude and thinks it is important to keep going. David walks to the shop each day to collect his paper and enjoys chatting to people in the village where everyone knows him.
Having worked overseas for many years, David likes to reminisce about his working life. He met many interesting people there and enjoyed learning some of the local languages.
David walks to collect his daily paper.
David walks to collect his daily paper.
I like to walk, I walk over- I can walk a long way outside, inside and all the rest of it; that keeps me going. I’ve got to do that [laughs].
Yeah, that’s good, every, yeah, everybody should walk plenty shouldn’t they?
But I’m otherwise fit.
Good.
Quite fit.
Yes, well yes.
So, I like to, you like to keep going and; I go for the, for the paper every morning, which is about, it’s about, more than half a mile, so it’s, it’s a mile or so, things like that and.
That’s good.
I try to, I’ve always been moving for walk, for walks and things like that.
Oh yeah.
But I like to, like to, like to do that.
That’s what’s kept you fit, isn’t it?
Yeah.
Keeps you.
Oh, it is, yes, yeah.
So, you, so the paper shop’s, what, half a mile up there and you, you want, you go up and get your paper every morning and?
That’s right, yeah, yeah. You can, you can see it’s about half a mile away, so [laughs] perhaps a little bit more than that but it’s fine, it’s my, it’s great really. I like to have that, that move, keep moving.
As he walks to the village shop for his daily paper, David enjoys chatting with people along the lane.
As he walks to the village shop for his daily paper, David enjoys chatting with people along the lane.
Can you walk out from here or do you walk in the lanes?
Up, up and down, right to the far end down there, because there’s a lot going on and a lot of people I know now and they know me [laughs]. So, you know, it’s a nice, it’s a nice area actually for people to talk to you, you know, it’s not the, in any way, you know, we have a natter, which is good, going, it keeps me going.
Oh, that’s nice. So, if you just walk down to the corner here, there’s people will say hello and you…
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah all around, you know. See something and all the, you’ll have another chat about it and all the rest and it’s quite nice, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. It’s good to get out and about, isn’t it?
Yes, yeah, yeah.
David loves the dancing at his group.
David loves the dancing at his group.
So, you were telling us that you, you go to the [Support Group] and you, and you like meeting all the different people there.
Yes, yeah, yeah, they’re a nice crowd there, they really are. You know, everybody comes in and does their thing which, you know, is great and, you know, and I like going there [laughs].
Well just the, at the club here, it’s quite nice there, nice crowd. There’s a lot going on and, which is, which is nice and, you know, so it’s; I can’t do as much nowadays as I used to do.
I saw you dancing. Oh dancing, right.
Oh [laughs].
You were dancing in the middle?
Yes [laughs] well, you know [gestures dancing] [laughs].