00:03Sisters Min and Faye share a piano and a love of music.
00:07Most of the time we get along with each other and it sounds really nice because it's four hands instead
00:13of two.
00:14As well as playing in competitions and concerts, the girls visit residential aged care homes,
00:20like this dementia village just outside of Hobart.
00:25It started after they made a discovery about a family friend who's living with the condition.
00:31Usually he was stressing or like depends how he feels and everything, but when we started playing like he would
00:39relax and he would smile.
00:42And I think he really enjoyed that moment and I really treasure it as well.
00:45There's evidence that musical memory is retained by people with Alzheimer's disease,
00:51even as other cognitive abilities deteriorate.
00:55It's really just one of the intact pathways that's in the brain that's still active and functioning.
01:01So it's kind of like another way in to start interacting and communicating with somebody who's living with dementia.
01:07Nick Dickens lives with a form of dementia that 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.
01:20Fantastic. Absolutely. That's really talented. It just makes you feel alive really.
01:27So his name is John?
01:28I'mizing.
01:28That's really talented.
01:29I've stayed in awe.
01:29I'm happy to have heard of him.
01:31He's in awe.
01:32I'm ready for this amazing reason because of the cooking life that feels very good to work.
01:32That's really sweet and important.
01:32Just because he's in awe.
01:34What are your favorite things that they can do?
01:34He's in awe of me.
01:35I will win.
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