Doris has an excellent blog on working in nursing homes, and has many stories on patients who suffered from dementia. During April, she wrote a story from a woman's perspective who had dementia.
May the music of your life always play in your heart.
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Music keeps memories alive
Music is another language, a way to communicate when words fail. Doris at Hold My Hand: a Social Worker's Blog has an excellent story on how she connected with a woman suffering from Alzheimer's by bringing her classical music and using sensory stimulation.
Doris has an excellent blog on working in nursing homes, and has many stories on patients who suffered from dementia. During April, she wrote a story from a woman's perspective who had dementia.
May the music of your life always play in your heart.
Doris has an excellent blog on working in nursing homes, and has many stories on patients who suffered from dementia. During April, she wrote a story from a woman's perspective who had dementia.
May the music of your life always play in your heart.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Music is a Natural Memory Aid
Statistic of the Day: An estimated 10 million individuals in the U.S. provide unpaid care to persons with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Country Western singer/songwriter Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He is giving a farewell tour and interviews on television. On ABC' World News Tonight, Campbell sat with his wife and reminisced about his career and their relationship. While his wife, Kim Woollen, helped him remember his age and that he did, indeed, have Alzheimer's, despite "Not feeling it yet," as Campbell said, he held his guitar and played with the gift that God gave him and sang the words to his classics. That's when his wife said, "Music is a natural memory aid."
Share some musical memories with your loved one today.
(Click here for to watch the interview on ABC.)
Country Western singer/songwriter Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He is giving a farewell tour and interviews on television. On ABC' World News Tonight, Campbell sat with his wife and reminisced about his career and their relationship. While his wife, Kim Woollen, helped him remember his age and that he did, indeed, have Alzheimer's, despite "Not feeling it yet," as Campbell said, he held his guitar and played with the gift that God gave him and sang the words to his classics. That's when his wife said, "Music is a natural memory aid."
Share some musical memories with your loved one today.
(Click here for to watch the interview on ABC.)
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