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Football legend Jimmy Armfield supports dementia awareness campaign

Blackpool and England football legend Jimmy Armfield is appearing in a new video campaign about dementia, inspired by his friend Sir Tom Finney.

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Watch: Football legend Jimmy's moving interview about dementia

Blackpool and England hero Jimmy Armfield is appearing in a new video campaign about dementia.

It's a subject close to the footballer's heart, his great friend the Preston North End legend Sir Tom Finney suffered dementia before he died.

Jimmy's appearing in a film, raising awareness of dementia, that has been produced as part of Altogether Now - A Legacy for Blackpool.

That's the partnership between the NHS in Blackpool, Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group and Hospitals Trust, Blackpool Council and Blackpool FC.

In the interview, Jimmy, a health ambassador for the project, said he had become much more aware of the condition as he himself got older.

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