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It was a motorbike that brought Albert (Bert) Drury and his late wife Jean together – a marriage he describes as the “best thing I ever did”.
The bright, sun-flooded upstairs patio of Wesley Mission Queensland Knowles Court aged care community in Sinnamon Park is beginning to look like a jungle. Every week there are more and more pot plants covering every corner – it’s a riot of succulents, aloe vera, spider plants, and potted colour – even the occasional fern. Old Man’s Beard hangs from the upper-most branches of a rather large jade plant. Brian, a resident at Knowles Court, gestures to the jade plant as he walks out onto the patio. “That thing grows like crazy,” he says. “It’s easy to get cuttings from that and pot them up in new pots.”
Residents at Bolton Clarke’s Rowes Bay residential community in Townsville were recently treated to a very special visit from a young Clydesdale horse.
The use of song-writing to improve the relationships between people living with dementia and their families is just one of 17 new projects that will share in more than $1 million in grants to conduct ground-breaking dementia research.
