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Age 76-95
Interview 45  

Interview 45

Age at Interview: 76
Sex: Female
Background: Is a widow with 4 adult children. She is a housewife. Ethnic background/nationality: Pakistani/English.
Brief outline:She had a stroke due to a clot aged 72 which caused left weakness of her leg and arm. Medication: amplodopine, doxazosin, enalapril (blood pressure) furosemide (water), simvastatin, aspirin (cholesterol), fluoxetine (depression).

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She has been waiting a long time for a bathroom to be put in downstairs. In the mean time she has bed baths and baths at the community centre which she is not happy with. (Video & audio clips in Punjabi.)

 



Translated from Punjabi

You just want a toilet downstairs is that it?

I'd like a toilet and shower for bathing downstairs I don't need anything else, I just need this and nothing else.

And for walking?

I can walk little, slowly slowly I can go to the toilet but if the toilet is far I can't make it then, now. The toilet is upstairs how can I climb the stairs to go upstairs, if I want a bath how can I climb upstairs. I come here especially to have a bath.

They should have given me toilet bath, so I could shower. Now I've stayed home 6/7 months. They gave me bath towel, with bath towel you can't get rid of the smell not until you use water properly. They used to wash my hair-using bucket, they can't bath me in a bucket. I used to smell that's why I started coming here.

Here they bath you?

Yes they bath me here.
Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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