Ravel’s Bolero

Watch this Flash mob rendition of Ravel’s Bolero, and thanks to Keith Oliver for sharing it with me. Published on YouTube Feb 10, 2013: The Queensland Symphony Orchestra surprises a curious and enthusiastic crowd with a guerrilla-style performance of Ravel’s Bolero in Brisbane’s South Bank.  The Orchestra relocated to the city’s cultural hub in December…

Residential Aged Care and the smell of urine

The following post has been published with permission of the author, a global friend of mine living with a diagnosis of younger onset dementia. Her experience resonated so much with me I asked her if I could publish it here. I suspect the staff working in aged care are so accustomed to the smell of urine,…

Mary Beth Wightons story

Carpe Diem – Living Life to the Fullest My Story I’m often asked if I can pin-point when the dreadful disease of Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia (FTD) slithered into my life and began to attack my brain. I don’t know. When I look back, it was about the year 2007 when I began to make serious…