00:03Sisters Min and Faye share a piano and a love of music.
00:07Most of the time we get along with each other
00:10and it sounds really nice because it's four hands instead of two.
00:14As well as playing in competitions and concerts,
00:17the girls visit residential aged care homes
00:20like this dementia village just outside of Hobart.
00:24It started after they made a discovery
00:27about a family friend who's living with the condition.
00:31Usually he was stressing or like depends how he feels and everything
00:36but when we started playing like he would relax and he would smile.
00:41And I think he really enjoyed that moment
00:43and I really treasure it as well.
00:45There's evidence that musical memory is retained
00:48by people with Alzheimer's disease
00:50even as other cognitive abilities deteriorate.
00:54It's really just one of the intact pathways that's in the brain
00:58that's still active and functioning.
01:01So it's kind of like another way in to start interacting
01:03and communicating with somebody who's living with dementia.
01:07Nick Dickens lives with a form of dementia
01:10that impacts more on mood and mobility rather than memory.
01:14Once a guitarist himself, he's in awe of Faye and Min's musical skill.
01:21Fantastic. Absolutely. That's really talented.
01:25It just makes you feel alive really.
