Music Therapy for Seniors with Memory Loss

Music has shown to be very therapeutic for Glen Campbell and his family since his Alzheimer’s diagnosis.  Learn more in this article from Caregiver List.

Music Associations:  most of us associate music with important events in our lives and will have a wide range of emotions sparked by a song we remember from a certain event or time in our lives.  Hearing the tune evokes a memory and this is why some with memory loss may be able to suddenly step up and sing a song from their childhood or young adult years.  Caregivers can search their itunes for songs from the time period of when the senior was a teenager or sometimes church hymns also can be very memorable.

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