Didier Blot suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Every Friday, he plays table tennis with other patients who also have the disease as part of an adapted program developed by the French Alzheimer Association and the French Table Tennis Federation since 2019. “This allows him better orientation, better control of his balance and place in space, testified his wife Catherine in the press kit of France Alzheimer. It’s strange, but before table tennis, he was knocking everything down, and then suddenly he stopped.” Didier suffers from aphasia, a partial or complete loss of the ability to express himself. “When he comes home from table tennis, his speech is smoother, he speaks better, pursues his wife. It is really impressive. He is also calmer, more prepared, more focused; it scatters less. And then, my husband loves the group spirit, getting together with others. It spurs him on.”
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Source: Le Figaro
