Alive Inside: How the Magic of Music Proves Therapeutic for Patients with Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Democracy Now!
With advanced dementia, when people no longer can recognize their own family members, they stop speaking. But when they hear music that’s familiar from their youth, because those memories are preserved, they come alive. They connect with that. It’s a direct sort of a backdoor to that failing cognitive system right to the emotional system, which is really very much intact.
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