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Dr Clíona Farrell - An Alzheimer’s Cabaret
Dr Clíona Farrell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
After a long week at AAIC in London, Clíona swapped the conference hall for the Bloomsbury Theatre and a one-woman cabaret called Unforgettable. It tells the story of Tamara, who lost her father to familial young-onset Alzheimer's at 45, and who lives with a 50% chance of carrying the same mutation. What Clíona expected to be an evening of tears turned out to be funny, dynamic and strange in the best way, with a bubble machine, a lit-up hula hoop and a family horse among the cast of characters. But it also landed somewhere…
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