‘Sport holds a special place’: how one man helps his father with Alzheimer’s

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Matt Singleton is a gerontologist who has written a book around the 1966 World Cup which aims to stimulate memories

even years ago Matt Singleton’s father, Brian, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and one of the immediate consequences was that he stopped reading. “That was his main pastime when he wasn’t working, along with football,” says Matt. “Suddenly I was no longer able to buy him books for things like birthdays and Father’s Day, so I started to write them myself for fun.”

Singleton says he shares similar formative experiences to his father. “I can still remember 24 January 1998, my first trip to Highbury with my dad,” he says. “It was just astonishingly memorable. So for my dad and people like him, we hear it time and again, females and males, 1966 is a big event, what you call a cohort memory.”

Singleton’s book, entitled “Looking back at … the 1966 World Cup”, is designed to stimulate those memories and encourage the creation of more. It is illustrated, with each page both complete in itself and forming a part of a broader story. The text is in rhyme, the repetition of which is good for stimulating memory, and at the end there are exercises, simple question and answers that help to organise and further reinforce the information.

 

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