Imagining The Other Response - Apraxia Installation Performed

About this episode

The episode explores Alzheimer's through a monologue that emphasizes moments of recognition and care amidst the experience of apraxia.

At the Threshold is a short arts–health monologue that explores Alzheimer’s through time, pause, and listening. Drawing on lived observation, personhood thinking, and the experience of apraxia, the piece focuses not on loss of memory, but on moments where action, recognition, and agreement arrive out of sequence — and sometimes return. Structured around the sound of wind moving through a room, the monologue invites the listener to stand in the space before decisions are made: where consent is not refusal, stillness is not absence, and waiting becomes a form of care. This work sits between theatre, medical humanities, and sound piece. It is an invitation to imagine the other — not as someone disappearing, but as someone navigating changing thresholds of access, timing, and recognition. Listeners are invited, at the end, to close the door if they wish.

People in this episode

Host: Lita Doolan

Topics covered

• Alzheimer's
• apraxia
• arts-health
• theatre
• medical humanities
• sound art

Keywords

• Alzheimer's
• apraxia
• monologue
• theatre
• medical humanities
• sound

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: At the Threshold, Alzheimer’s, apraxia

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