Father of two thought to be the youngest person in Britain with Alzheimer's on ...

Dressed in the hipster uniform of low-slung baggy jeans, jumper and bushy beard, Daniel Bradbury looks every inch the cool young drummer he used to be. 

Opening the door of his semi-detached home with a broad grin and firm handshake, he welcomes me inside a home bursting with the laughter of his two small children and all the usual chaos of a busy young family.

It's only when he leads the way into the living room with the swaying, unsteady gait of a very old man that it becomes clear that something is terribly wrong.

That's because two years ago, Daniel was diagnosed with something that thousands suffer from and millions of us fear – a particularly aggressive form of Alzheimer's. 

Daniel Bradbury, 32, suffers from a particularly aggressive form of Alzheimer's and is believed to be the youngest person in Britain with the strain (Daniel with wife Jordan  their twins Jasper and Lola with his wife)

Daniel Bradbury, 32, suffers from a particularly aggressive form of Alzheimer's and is believed to be the youngest person in Britain with the strain (Daniel with wife Jordan  their twins Jasper and Lola with his wife) 

Aged just 32, Daniel is believed to be the youngest person in Britain with the strain.

'It's hard,' he admits, his words hesitant. 'It's frustrating how my body is failing and to know I won't see my children grow up. And I do feel like a burden.'

Daniel and his family were introduced to viewers of BBC1's Our Dementia Choir last week.

This poignant, yet ultimately, life-affirming documentary follows 20 people who live with the condition as they get ready to perform at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall.

They were brought together by Line Of Duty actress Vicky McClure, who wanted to help others with the illness that claimed her grandmother Iris.

While there is no cure for the disease, there is growing evidence that music can help ease symptoms such as agitation and depression, while also bringing much needed pleasure to singers and their families.

The brutality of Alzheimer's knows no bounds: just a few years ago, Daniel was looking forward to bringing up twins Jasper and Lola with his wife Jordan.

Now he has good days and bad days but his physical strength is fading so fast that he can no longer pick up the two-year-olds and he struggles to follow a conversation.

He is aware of his surroundings but, as much as he wants to engage, he finds it difficult to concentrate. So it is left to Jordan to explain the impact this terrifying disease has on them all.

The father-of-two said: 'It's frustrating how my body is failing and to know I won't see my children grow up. And I do feel like a burden'

The father-of-two said: 'It's frustrating how my body is failing and to know I won't see my children grow up. And I do feel like a burden'

'It's the longest and cruellest goodbye. I'm watching the love of my life literally disappear before my eyes,' she says.

'And it's a double whammy because not only am I losing my soulmate and best friend, but he may have passed the gene to our children. So I might have to repeat the experience when they are older and start to show symptoms.'

Alzheimer's is a disease associated with the later years of life, but Daniel first noticed something was wrong after starting a new job as an aerospace engineer. Then aged 28, he found himself struggling to retain information.

'I would write everything down in a book but the next day I'd forget what I had done and what I had to do,' he explains with a quiet fortitude that has characterised his struggle against this crushing illness.

Dismissed from his job after nine months for failing to progress, he fell into what Jordan thought was depression for about 18 months.

'I'd noticed before that Dan was not well. I knew something cognitive was going on and I feared a brain tumour or cancer, but never this,' she recalls.

It was only after the twins' first birthday in July 2017, when his symptoms had become more noticeable, that he was finally tested.

By then, Jordan and their extended families suspected something was seriously wrong.

It was only after the twins' first birthday in July 2017, when his symptoms had become more noticeable, that he was finally tested

It was only after the twins' first birthday in July 2017, when his symptoms had become more noticeable, that he was finally tested

'Dan kept tripping over or bumping into things,' she says. 'He couldn't recall what we had planned for the weekend. He developed a stutter and started to slur his words.' After a family conference, which included his mother and two younger brothers, Daniel and the middle sibling Sean went together and were tested.

'By the time we sat nervously in the doctor's office with Dan's mum, I had already seen a marked deterioration in his mobility. He was very unsteady and had started to lean to the left,' says Jordan.

When asked if they still wanted to know the result, Daniel said 'yes' without hesitation. 'I needed clarity,' he tells me now. 'I wanted to know why my body was letting me down.'

Sitting alongside him, his wife and mother burst into tears – especially after being told there was a 50 per cent chance of the twins dying the same way. It was, says Jordan, an unbearable blow.

'All our dreams for the future died when he was diagnosed. I sometimes feel angry at the world. I feel we have been robbed of our future together, our hopes and expectations. I feel cheated out of life.'

This, she says with a weary sigh, is not the life the pair had planned. They met as teenagers when they worked at a local Matalan store and became inseparable.

Daniel was the drummer in a pop band and music was an important part of their lives. 

Now they find themselves compiling a bucket list of things he wants to do – from dining in a top restaurant to jumping out of an aircraft – and making as many memories for their children as they can.

Jordan says: 'People believe it's an end-of-life condition, so they don't really think much about it happening to someone in their prime.

'We never thought it would hit us either, but there it is, slowly sucking the life out of the man I love.'

His wife Jordan said: 'People believe it's an end-of-life condition, so they don't really think much about it happening to someone in their prime. We never thought it would hit us either, but there it is, slowly sucking the life out of the man I love'

His wife Jordan said: 'People believe it's an end-of-life condition, so they don't really think much about it happening to someone in their prime. We never thought it would hit us either, but there it is, slowly sucking the life out of the man I love'

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