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Age 56-65
Interview 22  

Interview 22

Age at Interview: 62
Sex: Male
Background: Is a married father with 2 adult children and a retired charity worker. Ethnic background/nationality: White/English.
Brief outline:He had two stroke due to clots aged 59. The strokes caused ataxia, dysphagia, dysarthria and double vision. Medication: atenolol (blood pressure), bezafibrate (cholesterol), warfarin (anticoagulant), hyoscine (reduce saliva), Thick 'n' easy (thickens drinks).


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They used to attend a stroke club in London which provided exercise and support for people who had had a stroke and also contact with other carers. Older people seem to be more insular where they live now.

 



Husband: I notice up here in [where we are living] that lots of people, older folk with scooters for example, really don't pay much attention to anybody else. You have to wonder what, why they are like that. I think it is because they are encouraged all the time to think about themselves rather than other people. I was a member of a stroke club in North London for 2 years and I think that really helped keep things a bit in focus because you realised that other people are a lot worse off than you and their carers too have a difficult job.

Wife: I, and, but this day when he went, it was a very unusual stroke club in that it was, it lasted for the whole day and they had exercise, an hour's exercise in the morning and they took their sandwiches and then they'd have a talk or games in the afternoon and so it gave me quite a few hours on my own. Although, to start off with, we went together and in fact the first day [my husband] went on his own it was a bit like first day at school, he wasn't too happy about going on his own [laughter]. But, it was good because I met other wives who, it always seems to be wives who are in the caring situation and you could compare with them and as [my husband] said, you, he met people who were worse off than him in, in different ways. So you, it puts things into perspective. 
Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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