00:00 Some eight years ago, Gerry Paley, a former civil servant living in Ireland, was diagnosed
00:07 with dementia.
00:10 How has the disease changed his life?
00:13 Gerry and his wife, Nuala, explain that he can no longer drive, but new activities have
00:19 also popped up.
00:24 It was progressively, yeah, your life has progressively changed.
00:28 Your sense of direction has gone slightly.
00:32 I don't think Gerry really realises it, but I can see it, that he wouldn't, he might go
00:40 left instead of right, that sort of thing.
00:45 But you've still got, Gerry was always very socially conscious, and he still has that
00:50 great will to help people and help others, to do things for others.
00:55 That's why he likes being very involved with the Alzheimer's Society.
01:02 He's very involved with the different groups in it.
01:06 We have a group in Grayson's called, well it's with dementia, and we call it Musical
01:13 Memories.
01:14 I'm probably one of the younger people there, a lot of them are quite elderly, men and women.
01:25 So we have a book of songs, and then we'll pick a song and we all sing the song together.
01:33 And you can see people now who are worse than I am, you can see them reacting to the music.
01:41 Music is a good way of therapy with people with dementia.
01:47 Gerry had great interest in music because he was a DJ for a little while.
01:52 In his youth he used to do it as a kind of a hobby.
01:57 And he has great interest in music, he loves listening to music.
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