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Iolanda: I am Iolanda. I've got three boys. They older now, and they come and see me all the time but that's it. That's it. And I do a bit of crochet, and I do everything. I do the garden myself.
[visual: Iolanda does the gardening]
Iolanda: You know, I asked my son to do the garden, the one time I asked him, he made a mess, and I said, "No, I can do it myself." I've got good kids. I've got three sons, but one is not coming because he's got a restaurant. One, he come in every week before he goes to work, past my place.
[visual: Iolanda spends time with her friends]
Iolanda: I like the time at the club. Well, I like to have the company of the other people. That's how I like it too. That's really good people. And I would say, I say, "I got to the number." I'm not a really good player. We just have fun, that's it. We can shop close, really close to you. You can walk. Heading out the door, get the tram or the bus, anything.
Yeah, I'm very healthy. I'm very healthy. I'm not like lots of people, “I’m tired”, and they're not working. Always I got the need to do the crochet. I make things for the kids, the grandkids. That's what I do the whole time. I don't say I do nothing, always, I do something. If you sit here and do nothing, you can't be healthy. You have to do things to get healthy.
[Title card: With special thanks to Iolanda, Lucia, Teresa, and BASS Care’s Maranoa House]
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[Title card: National Dementia Hotline 1800 100 500. For language assistance call 131 450]
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