Called Dementia Disco, it creates a safe space and community not just for those living with the disease, but for loved ones ...
Anne and Bruce Hunt didn’t expect to be very good singers. After all, the pair had not been part of a singing group in more than 50 years. But Anne Hunt, 82, a retired writer, had recently been ...
The new song, 'Brighter than the Night' has been produced by BRIT-winner Nick Patrick and mastered at Abbey Road Studios.
Research shows the best work out for your brain is listening to music. Johns Hopkins Medicine reports music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, pain, improve sleep and more. But for our aging ...
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 ...
Many of the singers in Giving Voice Chorus have hearing aids and get lost in the sheet music, but at a rehearsal Monday they could all belt out the 1971 hit “Jeremiah was a Bullfrog.” The chorus is ...
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 ...
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 ...
A choir for people with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, and their caregivers, starts Jan. 10 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Grand Forks. The choir, dubbed "The Unforgettables," is being ...
Audience members were invited to join in singing some of the carols and gave the choir a well deserved round of applause at ...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Sophia Compton “can’t read a note” of music. The retired professor isn’t embarrassed to admit her lack of vocal training, even amid three of her fellow choir members. Her regular ...