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Broadcaster and journalist John Stapleton has revealed his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. The 78-year-old journalist appeared alongside his son Nick in a film about his experience with the condition…

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00:00It didn't come as a surprise because dad's mum, my gran, also had Parkinson's in the years before she died.
00:07I witnessed my mother's decline from this lively, ebullient, outgoing lady to a lady who was fairly fragile.
00:13One of the practical problems she faced initially was the inability to do things like open a can of beans
00:17or peel a potato.
00:19And believe it or not, I'm having the same problem to some extent myself right now.
00:23In the end, you know, she was sort of locked in her own house.
00:26So yeah, her lifestyle changed dramatically.
00:29And I suppose mine will too.
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