A choir in Orange County is using music to give people with dementia a dose of music therapy. OK Chorale meets at Laguna Country United Methodist Church every week and uses music to target everything ...
Jan. 2—A new choir will be forming in Stillwater. The Raising Voices Chorus is a "dementia-friendly" choir that will serve the Stillwater area through song, said Coordinator Sarah DeYong. Everyone is ...
Carla Clark | For The Republic Sandi’s Closet, a no cost, pop up shopping experience for people living with dementia, created and ran by Jill Tasker, shown during their visit to at Silver Oaks Health ...
This is the third installment in a series of stories exploring memory disorders in the Chippewa Valley. In today’s installment, two women share their experiences of loss due to dementia and how music ...
Ask someone with dementia what year it is and they might tell you 1972. Ask that same person to sing “The Star Spangled Banner” and they’ll belt it out loud and proud, skipping no beat, forgetting ...
MANASSAS, Va. — Most choirs strive for perfect pitch. But at one Manassas, Va. choir, hitting the right notes matters less than hitting the heart. RELATED: How a rare instrument is helping a Virginia ...
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - A local community choir that uses music to help people with memory loss rediscover who they are and make lifelong friends is preparing for its spring concert. Volunteers with ...
The performers enter Sundin Music Hall arm in arm, lavender scarves draped around their pressed white shirts. It’s nearly showtime, but the eager singers—a constellation of community members, some ...
Drema Yates, 86, wobbles into the sanctuary of Manassas Church of the Brethren, clutching tightly onto the arm of her husband, Mike Yates. She relies on Mike, who’s eight years younger, to keep her ...