Our In Focus campaign piece last week on dementia-friendly initiatives emerging in Britain mistakenly said that Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) was a form of Alzheimer’s disease that affects the front of the brain. It actually affects the back. We also said the Alzheimer’s Society had overseen the training of thousands of “dementia friends”. The society prefers to call them “befriending volunteers”. (“Giving a voice to UK’s dementia sufferers and their loved ones”, page 32, last week.)
The conductor Simon Rattle’s first marriage was to American soprano Elise, not Elaine, Ross (Profile, last week). And the same piece said “Daniel Barenboim remains across the Potsdamer Platz as director of the Deutsche Oper”. The Deutsche Oper is in Bismarckstraße, and anyway Barenboim is not its director. He runs the Deutsche Staatsoper (“Will the maestro return home?”, page 34).
The New England summer house of the poet TS Eliot, now bought by his estate as a monument to his life, is in Gloucester, Massachusetts, not, as we claimed, in New Hampshire (“TS Eliot’s restless ghost finds a home in a seaside idyll that fired his genius”, In Focus, last week, page 30).
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