Elderly ballerina with dementia reacts to Swan Lake. . . .
Former ballerina with dementia Marta C Gonzalez remembers Swan Lake choreography.. The emotional moment was shared by the Asocaicion Musica Despertar, a Spanish charity which uses the music of dementia patients’ lives to improve their mood and memory, among other things. In the video Ms Gonzalez listens to the music through a pair of headphones and soon begins to replicate the choreograph The clip shows Marta C Gonzalez, who died in 2019, listening to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake – which she had danced to in her youth.
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(I pretty much do that every weekend I am not working). In a rare moment of lucidity she recognized me, then started crying. Reminded me of my childhood.
She has not spoken in two years now, has not recognized me in over three. She became bedridden 18 months ago and that is when we put her in hospice at home. My dad refuses to part with her so we hired a private duty nurse who has become a part of our family now. When my mom passes I will offer to hire her to care for my dad.
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