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Liverpool Echo
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Douglas Whitbread & Aaliyah Rugg

Daughter watched dad 'transform before her eyes' with perfect gift

A man with a debilitating condition that leaves him struggling to communicate with his family is "brought back to life" with his favourite songs.

Eddie O’Brien, 74, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's three years ago after his family noticed he was forgetting names and getting lost on his way home. Daughter Rebecca, from Warrington, said they began to worry after he was robbed while he was out.

She said: "The two men stole £500 out of his bank accounts because he’d kept his pin number in his wallet. And another time, he said he had got on the wrong bus home, but he couldn’t remember where it had taken him to. And that’s when we started having quite a lot of concerns really."

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