CHICAGO (CBS) — Studies have shown that music could greatly impact our mood and health. For a local choir, it serves up healing powers for those coping with early-stage dementia. The Good Memories ...
Dementia is a word thief. A memory twister. A menace for navigation. But somehow, people who can’t remember names or a conversation from just minutes ago can still sing, locking into lyrics a ...
Elaine Lebar became a TikTok sensation at age 92 when her daughter Randi posted a video of her playing “Moonlight Sonata” at ...
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 ...
CAMBRIDGE, England — What happens in the brain when music meets memory? For people with advanced dementia, who often experience significant distress, this question could hold the key to better ...
A 91-year-old man battling vocal cord atrophy regained his voice and was able to sing for his wife, who has dementia, on their 66th wedding anniversary, thanks to help from Memorial Hospital Houston.
Margaret Mackie is not your average pop star — she did it her way. Mackie has dementia and lives in a senior care facility, but last month, she released her first single, a cover of Frank Sinatra's ...
An Army veteran with vocal cord atrophy underwent two years of therapy to sing to his wife on their 66th anniversary Jerome, a 91-year-old Army veteran, has been struggling with vocal cord atrophy, an ...
Millions of people have been moved by a woman serenading a cancer patient on her final journey home in an ambulance. Yvon Kanters, from the Netherlands, studied to be a social worker, and in 2020 ...