To me it does not matter as long as it benefit the people who are in need of it and the nursing home is a blessing for them as long as it make them happy
Walking on Sunshine and It's the End of the World as we Know It would have to be my favorite songs to get moving. I walked in a walk a thon with my ex-husband and did 16 miles that night when no one else showed up. They are songs that make me feel happy and alive. I would hope it would include the Carpenters, the Beatles, the Monkees and Abba, as they were songs I grew up singing. Broadway songs would also have to be on the play list. My family loves theater and they hold so many good memories. The song Matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof was done in my kid's high school and my three daughters sang it together, each in their chronological age singing the part of the characters in their age ranking. Proud mom moment. April is in My Mistress Face by John Dowland to remind me of time spent singing Madrigals in a choir. And Christmas music, all of it. I love the music and have taught classes about Carols through the ages. It would be certain to jog my memories.
in the 70's I nursed a 16yr lad who suffered a head injury and was semi-comatose. I played some popular music on a radio and nearly instantly, he was alert, looking for the source of the music, laughing and beginning to speak.
I have a head injury. It has been quite frustrating to remember what I’m doing constantly. I found that when I played the instrumentals to a song I had to learn, it helped me to remember things. I play brain games, study and learn new things constantly to get my brain back. It helps the most to learn new songs and relearn the ones I’ve forgotten.
My husband suffered a head injury and basically had to be sedated while it healed after surgery. He was really out of it and couldn’t do much talking. But when when I played him the music he likes, he became so much more alert and happy. He could actually talk to me in a way that was coherent. It was so wonderful.
this needs to be in every nursing home and aftercare facility on earth. music should be considered a basic human right. for people like this who have completely forgotten themselves to be able to get back what they love about their lives.... that is so powerful. my grandmother had dementia many years ago and i wish i knew about this.
Please check out “Music and Memories” - the documentary and the non-profit organization. What they do is get iPods and personalized music into nursing homes and care facilities. PLEASE spread the word - the work they do is inspiring snd so important!
@@papabear2515 great advice. Also Music and Memory has a RUclips channel with a lot of info, including how to get an ipod program going to deliver personalized music to nursing home residents.
I am 65 and diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s ... fir now it is just my very short term memory ... I listen to music every every night and I know it helps💗
There’s no need to limit it yourself to nighttime! Litsen while cooking, cleaning or gardening. There was a noticeable difference between my grandma who listened to music and sang all the time and my other grandma who didn’t. Good luck and stay well ❤️
When the lady couldn’t remember who her son was, you can see she was somewhat embarrassed but the way the son said “That’s just life” made me ball my eyes out 😭🥺 We need a cure for this vicious illness too many people have their life ripped away from them because of their own brain
There is a way to treat it. Just not what people would expect or believe in. A natural, balanced diet and a life avoiding toxic heavy metals in any form (lead, mercury, nickel, aluminum, cadmium, chromium...). Those metals are found in some food additives, preservatives, oral fillings, or cookware. The body can't get rid of it and the disease sets in when too much accumulates...
@@weneedmoreconsideratepeopl4006 that’s an awful unuseful answer since the people we see here probable had a very much healthier childhood and young adulthood that the most of us, most probably including you. I just hope there’s a cure for when i’m old or at least i hope there would be less taboo and social punishment around euthanasia. I would not wish this for anyone, as a parent or as a son/daughter.
I too, noticed her response to him saying he was her son. My take was that she was rather negative, not embarrassed. Not really glad to find he was her son. I felt she was responding to the fact that he had put her in a nursing home...and she wasn't happy about it. Just thoughts.
You tube has stories of Parkinson’s sufferers dancing tango fluidly with partners and then returning to their stuttering shuffle afterwards, Parkinson’s needs more research to understand and develop effective therapies for this condition.
Speech and language is initiated from a different part of the brain than singing is. So it could be related to that. I'm autistic and often non verbal autistic people will still sing and have perfect pinch - it's mind blowing
Winner of a video, I've been looking for "what is the treatment of parkinson's disease?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Piyaliyah Prominent Prepotence - (search on google ) ? It is a smashing one off guide for discovering how to reverse Parkinsons disease without the normal expense. Ive heard some super things about it and my work buddy got cool results with it.
😄 Well you'll probably already remember your childhood but not what you ate 30 sec. ago! It seems that those with Alzheimers can remember 80 years ago much better than 8 seconds ago. I'm already planning my playlist to give to my kids for when it's time!
@@R.Williams For Akzheimers, its more about using the music section of the brain to access language when the language segment craps out. Seems to work well. Dogs do wonders to get people to respond and move limbs after stroke or other illness or injury. I would never have believed it until I saw my own dog work magic. It was as life changing for me as for that resident who could regain use of her hand and arm, only when petting my dear Star.
This brought me to tears. I loaded an MP3 player with music from 1948 to 1952 for my Mother-in-Law that had dementia. She sang along with The Ames Brothers, Jo Stafford, Frankie Laine, and so on. I had fun just watching her memory of the songs coming back. I miss her so much.
Music is to me what oxygen is to others... When my darling Dad ended up in a coma (in 1998...), I brought a CD player to his hospital room. His face became peaceful, as soon as the first one of his favorite CD's started playing...
My heart goes out to your beautiful heart. Gosh I’m thinking how beyond essential and impactful this would be especially now with so many in nursing homes where I’d imagine they have even more isolation, loneliness and social deprivation. So many people of all ages anywhere could benefit as well. Best to you
You're not the only one, @Patsy Pryor. 40 years ago I lost my mom to dementia; this wasn't even thought of or considered, and I will regret it till the day I die.
@@marclewis7643 I'm sorry for you loss. Please don't blame yourself. I am sure you did the best you could with what you had, with the conditions you had and with your knowledge at that time. This is what matters. It is not your fault.
This sort of thing causes me to think that in this time of isolation and political chaos we all need more music. Make sure you watch the man with Parkinson's! It's awesome and incredible.
My husband has early Parkinson's and loves music--but can't dance a step--he never could. I wonder if he would be able to dance or just whistle and enjoy the music when the Parkinson's get really bad.
I came into my 70th season in 2020, my mom lived into her 90's+, my grandmother was into her 90'+ season too. I'm not afraid to go home to see Jesus and my mother's. I will ask all my kids to play my favorite music to me if I'm not in my home. I can see how music brightens the mind's memories, thank you for the documentary. God bless you 😇's.
@@R.Williams I shared this video with my mom and told her to make a list of songs that bring her back to her most pertinent parts of her life...for just in case/later.
One member of the sinking duo Jan and Dean had a car accident on dead man’s curve which was one of their songs and was in a coma for months. The other member of the duo brought in music and comedy movies to his hospital room and he finally came out of the coma. Music does amazing things.
I'm a patient care tech in Glen Burnie, MD and I've been singing to my patients for years. I don't know their favorite songs but they seem to enjoy it. 😊
Wonderful! If I can suggest - you can take their age and then Google “best songs” of that era. I would suggest trying a few across various genres of that era - some jazz, some classical, some rock and roll, some pop ...and see which they respond to and then go from there. It is truly transformative. My mother in law has Alzheimer’s and we see first hand how she truly changes when she’s listening to the music of her teen and early adult years!
As I watched this I couldn't stop crying,my dear wide was diagnosed with dementia in 2005 and I watched her at home until 2009 at which time she was placed in a "memory" care facility,she played piano,her father had a band and I never knew about music therapy,to visit and see her with her head down lost in her own world,and I could have made her journey so much better is heart breaking
Don’t blame yourself i think given the hand you were delt you handled it the best you could and stuck by her side although hindsight is 20/20 you were loyal to the end and that counts for everything
They do! I worked in a care home for two years and they know how beneficial it is for people with dementia. They have musicians in to play for them often, and there are radios in every room. Of course these people are old so they often just want some peace and quiet hahaha, but most of them love music. It really lights them up.
Usually it’s due to a lack of funding for this “Music & Memory” program, as the iPods cost $ & experienced people need to implement it into the nursing homes, plus you need approval by the nursing home Directors. You can still overcome these challenges with funding from various grants.
my dad was diagnosed with dimentia/alziemers last month. that very moment when he had lost his memories i was singing his favorite song then he sings with me and began talking bout the way he used to share stories accurately and he was able to write few words. he is a music lover. he used to say that music is a form of therapy. he did proved it.
Please look for talks or books by the late Prof Oliver Sacks, brilliant neurologist and celebrated pianist who researched music in the treatment of neurological disease. Equally fascinating!
My grandfather has Parkinson's disease. It was his birthday on the 1st of September a couple of days ago. My father video called him and my grandfather could barely speak when he answered. Then we sang happy birthday and after we finished singing, he immediately said thank you without any struggle in his voice. He still managed to talk even more after the song. It shows how powerful music is, even if it's just singing happy birthday. Also, at my cousin's wedding in February, he actually stood up and danced a little bit, yet he could barely walk earlier that day.
I once worked with a nice women who had a stroke and had problems talking afterwards. Before she had the stroke she was a very good singer as I would later find out , very very talented. A few weeks in working with her ,her daughter put on her mothers CD and she started to sing along! It was such an emotional moment. We all cried :) Music is very very powerful and I hope we will use it more in Healthcare!
This is so wonderful :))))) I am in Canada, just completing a degree in sound therapy. The power of music is profound because we ARE music. Love that the science is coming out to show the world how this works! I plan to be working with Music and Memory in the new year!
That lady at the end... Betty. The "emotionless" lady. Jesus christ keep giving her a daily dose of music cus she has such a wonderful smile! That cannot be kept from the world.
My dad was a very educated man, well read, and had been a lawyer, teacher, and a judge. He was ill and struggling mentally in his last years. He had great caretakers outside and inside the family. He would watch 2 musical shows over and over. Singin' in the rain and the wizard of oz. I just wish I knew how powerful music is so we could have played more diverse songs he liked. He was so smart he knew music was important even then. Miss him.
This is a very sweet video, and I enjoyed it. One note to caregivers, from one who's been there: Never ask a a person with dementia an open-ended question like, "who am I" or "do you remember this"? It causes distress and embarrassment, as in the woman who couldn't remember who her son was at 3:38. But what a great, informative video.
Yes! Having also done dementia care, I caught that as well and cringed. Unfortunately, even when one is aware that, that is not helpful and often creates anxiety in the patient, it's hard to break the habit.
my dad works at a nursing home and he used to sing for fun during breaks for the old people's entertainment. his manager granted him an official time during his shifts to sing old hits now because she believes music definitely helps with the soul.
What a brilliant documentary!! I am deeply moved and it should be acknowledged worldwide ....as well as be used worldwide in all the mentionned fields ( Dementis, severe brain injury, Parkinsons disease etc) ....it is wonderful !! I will create my own favorite memory music lost- just in case !! Thank you so much for posting this !
I have seen first hand the effect of music on those with dementia and it is astounding. The person literally comes to life and their recall vastly improves. I know that when my depression becomes unbearable, music is the one thing that helps me move forward.
I have PTSD and C-PTSD. Memory issues are core symptoms. They have even linked memory PTSD to Alzheimer's and dementia. I can attest to not knowing who the hell I am and being confused, lacking a cohesive identity and not remembering the day before. When I was in the grip of trauma, I couldn't even register or listen to music. But now that a lot of the trauma dissipated, I think I'm finding music to be helping me regain cognition.
What a wonderful video. I’ve always believed that music is the universal language. I was a radio DJ for a while and my show was “Traveling around the World with music”. I would play music from all continents during my show. Even though you couldn’t understand the words, people really enjoyed the music and would call in with appreciation.
Im making a playlist of music year by year. Maybe one will survive when im old. Maybe someone else will benefit from them. Yeah they might not be clean but they are of the time
I need music in my life, I can't go 1 day without listening to it. Music brings me great joy, great memories, and nostalgia. If I'm ever in a home or somewhere I may not want to be, music would make me be able to excape.
Some of my favorite quotes from his video: - "Music is a human right." - "It's like a side door into the brain." - "Music is absolutely pivotal in the course of human evolution."
I had to fly home to Ireland 2 weeks ago my mum was not well she has dementia. I walked in started to sing the white cliffs of Dover and my wee mammy started to sing wave her arms and shouted here’s my Lynn, boy I cried my eyes out. I had been watching this the week before. I got my mammy back...even for a short time I was her Lynn
This is the most remarkable way to remember precious moments made in life. I recently watched a ballet dancer with dementia remember how she danced in Swan Lake apon hearing the music played in the production. Made me glad to have music exist in this world, and brought a few tears to my eyes.
You know what would be really great, is if they were able to somehow record smells, I'd love to be 90 years old and be able to smell grandma's cooking again, or the smell of the neighborhood as I walked to school on a cold, rainy day, or the smell of the fireplace on Christmas morning, or the smell of a fresh cut lawn, now only if someone could come up with an invention like that.
Incredible. Just...absolutely incredible. Brought me to tears watching these elderly folks become animated and singing... it's so beautiful to see this.
I saw this when I was volunteering for a dementia charity that provided holidays for dementia sufferers and their carers. Once a week there was a music day and the music would immediately make them all more coherent and open up and talk more to everyone.
I care for my Grandmother with dementia. It's amazing how some songs can just get her singing, laughing, and even dancing a little with her walker. It a beautiful moment when it happens so I try and play her favorite songs regularly.
Music, just what the doctor should order for dementia patients AND comatose patients. My sister had an aneurysm & after her brain operation, doctors said after a month in a coma, that she would not wake up. It’s been too long so they want to send her to a rest home! Her 3rd son refused to send her & said, “my mom is walking out this hospital!” He brought to the Hosp a radio & his mom’s favorite music. He began playing her music, her eyes began to flutter & her feet began simulating “tapping” to the music. Doctor was called in but he said the reactions was automatic due to some stimuli we are not aware of. Then he left. The music continued to play then her eyes opened, her fingers were snapping to the music, & feet moving to the music. It works people! You don’t have to have dementia to test this. Change your day, play music you love, soothes the soul & lift the spirit! My sister walked out that hospital a few weeks later! Hallelujah!
In England there are weekly meetings in some areas called "Singing for the Brain" for dementia patients. People get together and have a sing song. Amazing how the words and melodies come back
This is incredible !. What a job , what dedication, and love and care by these folk who look after the aged and infirm . and the amazing results music of their era can produce . Im not sure whether im blown away by the discovery of music as a relief or even healer , or by the love these doctors and staff have displayed for the sick and elderly in this video . Both I think , amazing , simply amazing . A most informative video , Thank you so much .
If the nostalgia is great already from music we know from 10 years in the past. Imagine now, music from 60 years in the past, that u don’t actually listen to for decades. That must be a real powerful feeling of waking up memories !! Just pure goldy joy
That’s just it, though-I really don’t think there will ever be music that I once loved that I haven’t listened to for decades. I spend so much time every day listening to music that I’ve just recently found as well as music from every other period of my life-there isn’t any music that belongs only to one portion of my life. Maybe that will change in the future, but I have a hard time imagining a future like that.
@@autumnphillips151 i understand u But those old people came from a time when they didn’t have internet, smartphones. I believe then it is even crazier and greater the nostalgia for them..
Amazing how art has such a long, deep relationship with people. Drawing, dancing, music has been with us as long as we have been a "us." Such a cool thing to know... 😌
That is actually so cool, and really says a lot about it’s meaning and significance at our cores. And it also is the kind of stuff that seems to all to often be ‘the first to go’ during funding cuts or institutions of control deciding what is essential, etc.
My nephew is a nurse/musician and applied a very similar technique (he did a CNN interview on the subject) and it is an absolutely amazing concept!…DEFINITELY needs to be an implement used in nursing homes and brain injury patients. Brilliant work on this!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Yes! It can be a stimulant to those who cannot speak or communicate any other way. I witness a 69 yr old man (who had a stroke) and who had not been able to speak for over a month, tear up when his son played some of his favorite music (by his bed side). Something clearly was happening.
Thank you so much ABC Science for featuring this amazing documentary. Please continue doing these kinds of inspirational and scientific studies. I just feel for those elderly who had lost their memories already and then when they hear a certain music that deeply affected them, there is a sudden progress in emotion and recall.
When you really think about it, all this is just common sense. Music has such a profound effect on the whole brain, it is a trigger to so many memories and emotions it has to be beneficial. I have listened to all kinds of music consciously for sixty five years, it has given me all manner of "thrills"depending on the genre of the music being played. Why has it taken so long to be recognised as such???
How sweet. Their eyes light up. Though I can't imagine putting my Mom in a nursing home. I'm proud to say she is almost 91,lives on her own,does her own banking,cooks and cleans with no assistance. I take her grocery shopping and we go to church together. Yes,sometimes she forgets and repeats the same stories,but that's just a way of remembering things.
For anyone involved in the treatment consider this, whilst the music brings memory up it may in fact be the soundwaves/frequencies stimulating nerves to area's of the brain that release various hormones/chemicals that reactivate cognitive functions. Each stimulus phase is then re-knitting memories together which then gives the client foundation blocks for self identification purposes recreating their persona. In turn it's helping them to re-gain confidence in themselves relaxing them as a result. Whilst not all aspects can be repaired it maybe enough to establish a strong enough foundation for them to manage everyday functionality. Please please trust me on this and look into this!!!!!
my idea is that the music is a strong stimulator of the existing neural pathways that are usually disconnected, providing a brief moment of clarity in those who cannot usually manually stimulate those pathways like we can when we recall things
i doubt it reactivates any cognitive functions as alzheimers and dementia are categorised by neurological damage, which is irreparable at this stage of human scientific development
You can see that the type of music influences different parts of the brain. By your hypothesis, you could simply emit sine waves at targeted frequencies to create meaningful effects in patients. You could even use the therapies with deaf people because it’s supposedly the physical movement of sound waves that cause the effects you describe. But these therapies are promoted by hippies and not the scientific community. They’re not shown to be significant beyond the placebo effect.
I worked at a senior living facility and I would sing to patients and more times then not they would sing with me word for word. I watched a similar documentary called alive inside , when I started to cry 😂 it was so inspirational and heart wrenching. It Livened them up almost instantly and bright then back memories . People who stopped speaking spoke again.
7:13 that guy saying music is better than drugs is great because it's true music can let you travel thru times past in your minds eye. This is wonderful and the one lady is right music is a human right and when I don't hear music I get very antsy and anxiety filled.
My Mom is 76 and starting to develop dementia. She still lives home, and when I put on the TV station with the oldies music, even if she dozes off, she sings. And remembers things about the artists sometimes. And sometimes she just sings to herself, even dozing off. I've meant to do something like this for her if she ends up in a home.
That study on how oxytocin release is so much more when singing togethqr explains why people make such strong bonds in musical theatre and why people used to sing working songs together.
Wonderful story! There's something very special & powerful happening here and I hope the idea of incorporating music into the lives of those that, thru fault of their own, have drifted into a world of silence can live, breath & feel again. I've seen with my own eyes exactly how music can break all barriers & reach a place deep inside
I am sorry for your loss. And I also wish I had known this when my dear grandma was alive. What I do know we can do now, is spread the word at every opportunity to everyone ... encourage them to watch the documentary “Music and Memories” - they will see, like in this presentation on RUclips, what an amazing difference music can and does make.
My mother had advanced dementia, and was slumped in a chair, head down, among other similar folk when I walked into the lounge of the care home where she resided because I could no longer cope, and as I came up to her to hold her hands and kiss her head, her soft white hair, 'Moonlight Serenade' by Glenn Miller came playing into the room and I rose her up and we swayed together, she holding tight, responding to the music of the war years. It didn't matter that she didn't who I was. Robert UK.
Every single event and experience showed in this video means everything to me. I’m so glad I found it and I’ll sure share it to spread such a precious message, in order to make more people conscious of the healing power of music.
Music is the mystical medicine that penetrates the walls that block the consciousness of the minds of people who are suffering from a multitude of illnesses. It opens up the pathways of communications because it is a happy pleasurable memory. It gives instant recall of past experiences and motivates people to move and gives them past recollections that makes them come alive again ❤
This is such a beautiful video. Music is primal indeed! Brought tears to my eyes it was so moving. Thank you for all those who make a difference in their lives. 🙏🏽
I'm happy to find this because my grandmother has dementia but we've kept her out of nursing because we're certain she'd regress with the unknown. My mother drives over almost every night and either takes them out to dinner or cooks for them, I'll be sure to ask her to bring some of her favorite music.
I had my music 30+ years ago .. I started re-recording it, but was hit with a massive stroke in brain. It keeps me alive. I still record but can't remember line for line.
I do not think that music helped make us.. But that we had to make music.. the music is in us.. we had no choice but to let it out.. Music has always been in me, from my earliest memories, I was always singing, making up tunes and words.. Even at 70 now I can make a song up about anything at any time.. especially when I am full of joy and happiness. It is just an outward expression of an inward feeling.. What fun this was.. You will probably never see this comment but I had to add it .. Well done.. Carry on!
It's interesting that music stimulates the brain even when memory starts to fade. in some cases even help to reduce people's drug dependency. A few years ago met a retired man in his 70s who started learning piano so that he can play the piece he heard his father play many years ago. Assuming that he had little experience in music although he may have taken lessons in the past, he quickly mastered the piece. The man uses prescription painkillers regularly that supposedly help him cope with his anxieties. The music playing continues to this day and the prescription medications as well. Not sure if the music has a strong enough effect for him to do away with his medications totally or even partially.
This was a indeed unique video presentation. I have never witnessed something so intense before. To actually look at a shell of a once beautiful person and to witness how a disease can ravage a brain to the point of robbing someone of all memories and cognitive abilities is shocking. However to see the subjects to come alive once again if only for a brief period gave me a sensation of sadness then joy. I can only sincerely hope with todays and future technology research it can put a end to this dreaded curse before it is my time or others that I know or met to be struck with this terrible terrible disease.
It has been found with the elderly, that a chronic urinary tract infection can mimic dementia symptoms and, in some cases, violent outbursts for no reason. It's a urinary tract infection but has not the usual symptoms like in everyone else - urge to urinate, irritation in urinary tract etc. One doctor said the nursing homes are full of people diagnosed with dementia and senility and, when some are given antibiotics to cure the urinary tract infection, all the symptoms of dementia, etc, go away. That is, if it's really a urinary tract infection causing the symptoms of dementia and/or sudden violent outbursts. In some cases, it's actually dementia. Pays to get it checked out. If a doctor refuses to check your elderly relative/friend/etc for a urinary tract infection and they were diagnosed with dementia, find another doctor who will. In fact, if the urinary tract infection is causing the dementia symptoms, when antibiotics are given, within a few days, all the dementia symptoms are gone gone gone.
That’s good to know. My mother had severe Alzheimer’s and also an autoimmune disease that caused her to get frequent infections of various kinds. I noticed that her Alzheimer’s improved while on antibiotics, and her geriatric specialist said it was because antibiotics can have an anti-inflammatory effect on the brain. (Not sure if this applies to all antibiotics, or just the ones she was taking.)
What songs would make your life playlist? Tell us your tracks and why below 👇
To me it does not matter as long as it benefit the people who are in need of it and the nursing home is a blessing for them as long as it make them happy
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Walking on Sunshine and It's the End of the World as we Know It would have to be my favorite songs to get moving. I walked in a walk a thon with my ex-husband and did 16 miles that night when no one else showed up. They are songs that make me feel happy and alive. I would hope it would include the Carpenters, the Beatles, the Monkees and Abba, as they were songs I grew up singing. Broadway songs would also have to be on the play list. My family loves theater and they hold so many good memories. The song Matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof was done in my kid's high school and my three daughters sang it together, each in their chronological age singing the part of the characters in their age ranking. Proud mom moment. April is in My Mistress Face by John Dowland to remind me of time spent singing Madrigals in a choir. And Christmas music, all of it. I love the music and have taught classes about Carols through the ages. It would be certain to jog my memories.
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I did a paper on how music effects emotions on Dementia residents in 89 and I was laughed at. This was before computers.
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you're a hero
I'd love to write a paper on that
Truely ahead of your time
People ahead of their times will always be ridiculed
in the 70's I nursed a 16yr lad who suffered a head injury and was semi-comatose. I played some popular music on a radio and nearly instantly, he was alert, looking for the source of the music, laughing and beginning to speak.
I have a head injury. It has been quite frustrating to remember what I’m doing constantly. I found that when I played the instrumentals to a song I had to learn, it helped me to remember things. I play brain games, study and learn new things constantly to get my brain back. It helps the most to learn new songs and relearn the ones I’ve forgotten.
@@tamarabrown9364 Dear Tamara, I'm wishing you well, sending hugs and prayers for progressive healing. Rosemaryxo
@@tamarabrown9364 Give your struggles to God.. the healer above all healers. God bless & prayers.
@@museluvr Amen
My husband suffered a head injury and basically had to be sedated while it healed after surgery. He was really out of it and couldn’t do much talking. But when when I played him the music he likes, he became so much more alert and happy. He could actually talk to me in a way that was coherent. It was so wonderful.
this needs to be in every nursing home and aftercare facility on earth. music should be considered a basic human right. for people like this who have completely forgotten themselves to be able to get back what they love about their lives.... that is so powerful. my grandmother had dementia many years ago and i wish i knew about this.
Me too
Please check out “Music and Memories” - the documentary and the non-profit organization. What they do is get iPods and personalized music into nursing homes and care facilities. PLEASE spread the word - the work they do is inspiring snd so important!
@@papabear2515 great advice. Also Music and Memory has a RUclips channel with a lot of info, including how to get an ipod program going to deliver personalized music to nursing home residents.
Yes ,and they need visitors 💖🔑💡again lonelness is pushing them to death🤔🙏✝️😪💖🔑
Absolutely 💯
I am 65 and diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s ... fir now it is just my very short term memory ... I listen to music every every night and I know it helps💗
There’s no need to limit it yourself to nighttime! Litsen while cooking, cleaning or gardening. There was a noticeable difference between my grandma who listened to music and sang all the time and my other grandma who didn’t. Good luck and stay well ❤️
Maybe you can keep everything in a playlist!! Sending you lots of love and hugsn
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Hope you are doing ok
How are you today love?
It has to be said. The second lady seems like such a joy
Can’t you just see how genuinely kind and sweet she is, right through to the core? ❤️ I really like her son, too. Really touching, beautiful stuff
She was making a few jokes, that's really heartwarming to see
When the lady couldn’t remember who her son was, you can see she was somewhat embarrassed but the way the son said “That’s just life” made me ball my eyes out 😭🥺 We need a cure for this vicious illness too many people have their life ripped away from them because of their own brain
There is a way to treat it. Just not what people would expect or believe in.
A natural, balanced diet and a life avoiding toxic heavy metals in any form (lead, mercury, nickel, aluminum, cadmium, chromium...). Those metals are found in some food additives, preservatives, oral fillings, or cookware. The body can't get rid of it and the disease sets in when too much accumulates...
@@weneedmoreconsideratepeopl4006 that’s an awful unuseful answer since the people we see here probable had a very much healthier childhood and young adulthood that the most of us, most probably including you. I just hope there’s a cure for when i’m old or at least i hope there would be less taboo and social punishment around euthanasia. I would not wish this for anyone, as a parent or as a son/daughter.
ball 🥎 or bawl😭 your eyes out?
I too, noticed her response to him saying he was her son. My take was that she was rather negative, not embarrassed. Not really glad to find he was her son.
I felt she was responding to the fact that he had put her in a nursing home...and she wasn't happy about it.
Just thoughts.
@@weneedmoreconsideratepeopl4006 No it is not that easy. Sadly.
As my mother's Parkinson's progress she had a lot of difficulty speaking. Then, we got her a Music Therapist and my mom could sing!!!!!!!
Awwh wow! 💕💫
You tube has stories of Parkinson’s sufferers dancing tango fluidly with partners and then returning to their stuttering shuffle afterwards, Parkinson’s needs more research to understand and develop effective therapies for this condition.
Amazing 👏
Speech and language is initiated from a different part of the brain than singing is. So it could be related to that. I'm autistic and often non verbal autistic people will still sing and have perfect pinch - it's mind blowing
So your saying im going to have to bump Eminem as a 90 year old to remember my childhood, LETS GO!!
I believe you’re brain should only react to what moves you, in one way or another. How ever that moves an inactive brain can be progress.
Me at 90 : "Panda Panda Panda RRRRRAAAA"
Winner of a video, I've been looking for "what is the treatment of parkinson's disease?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Piyaliyah Prominent Prepotence - (search on google ) ? It is a smashing one off guide for discovering how to reverse Parkinsons disease without the normal expense. Ive heard some super things about it and my work buddy got cool results with it.
😄 Well you'll probably already remember your childhood but not what you ate 30 sec. ago! It seems that those with Alzheimers can remember 80 years ago much better than 8 seconds ago. I'm already planning my playlist to give to my kids for when it's time!
@@R.Williams For Akzheimers, its more about using the music section of the brain to access language when the language segment craps out. Seems to work well. Dogs do wonders to get people to respond and move limbs after stroke or other illness or injury. I would never have believed it until I saw my own dog work magic. It was as life changing for me as for that resident who could regain use of her hand and arm, only when petting my dear Star.
This brought me to tears. I loaded an MP3 player with music from 1948 to 1952 for my Mother-in-Law that had dementia. She sang along with The Ames Brothers, Jo Stafford, Frankie Laine, and so on. I had fun just watching her memory of the songs coming back. I miss her so much.
good on you
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I guess i was ahead of the game...ive always played music for my patients...music from their day....always brought them to life. Sweetest thing ever
Music is to me what oxygen is to others...
When my darling Dad ended up in a coma (in 1998...), I brought a CD player to his hospital room. His face became peaceful, as soon as the first one of his favorite CD's started playing...
"It's a deeply grooved record to our memories and the people we have loved"
Beautifully said.
wish i would've known this in the 8 years of alzheimers with my mother. I provided her favorite tv shows and could calm her, but nobody tried this.
I'm hoping this idea really takes off. There's really something to this, I know!
My heart goes out to your beautiful heart. Gosh I’m thinking how beyond essential and impactful this would be especially now with so many in nursing homes where I’d imagine they have even more isolation, loneliness and social deprivation. So many people of all ages anywhere could benefit as well. Best to you
The Alzheimer Society had a regular "Singing for the Brain" meet. Shame you missed it.
You're not the only one, @Patsy Pryor. 40 years ago I lost my mom to dementia; this wasn't even thought of or considered, and I will regret it till the day I die.
@@marclewis7643 I'm sorry for you loss. Please don't blame yourself. I am sure you did the best you could with what you had, with the conditions you had and with your knowledge at that time. This is what matters. It is not your fault.
This sort of thing causes me to think that in this time of isolation and political chaos we all need more music. Make sure you watch the man with Parkinson's! It's awesome and incredible.
So true! 💕
My husband has early Parkinson's and loves music--but can't dance a step--he never could. I wonder if he would be able to dance or just whistle and enjoy the music when the Parkinson's get really bad.
I get as much music I can handle. Too much, probably. Every time I get angry, I put on my headphones-I pass an awful lot of time that way.
What’s the last song you listened to?
@@autumnphillips151 I'd love to change the world, by Ten years after.
I came into my 70th season in 2020, my mom lived into her 90's+, my grandmother was into her 90'+ season too. I'm not afraid to go home to see Jesus and my mother's. I will ask all my kids to play my favorite music to me if I'm not in my home. I can see how music brightens the mind's memories, thank you for the documentary. God bless you 😇's.
Make a list to give to them! My kids would have no idea what I love as their musical taste was completely different.🙂
@@R.Williams I shared this video with my mom and told her to make a list of songs that bring her back to her most pertinent parts of her life...for just in case/later.
Me when I'm 90 years old and they play me my music:
"I DID MY TIME AND I WANT OUT!!"
* pulls neck muscle in the process of headbanging *
Overkill by Motörhead.
Yeah slipknot is going to be up there for me aswell ! :p
Let's hope to whatever god that I even survive for alot of years. Just me blasting the hell out of Psychosocial.
Dying Fetus
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One member of the sinking duo Jan and Dean had a car accident on dead man’s curve which was one of their songs and was in a coma for months. The other member of the duo brought in music and comedy movies to his hospital room and he finally came out of the coma. Music does amazing things.
I'm a patient care tech in Glen Burnie, MD and I've been singing to my patients for years. I don't know their favorite songs but they seem to enjoy it. 😊
Wonderful! If I can suggest - you can take their age and then Google “best songs” of that era. I would suggest trying a few across various genres of that era - some jazz, some classical, some rock and roll, some pop ...and see which they respond to and then go from there. It is truly transformative. My mother in law has Alzheimer’s and we see first hand how she truly changes when she’s listening to the music of her teen and early adult years!
Aww that's so sweet!
Wendy, you have a special place in heaven for that! Hope you are well and happy. God bless,
@@papabear2515 I agree! And you wont regret learning some great classics!
@@jswhosoever4533 you are so right! All the best to you and yours.
As I watched this I couldn't stop crying,my dear wide was diagnosed with dementia in 2005 and I watched her at home until 2009 at which time she was placed in a "memory" care facility,she played piano,her father had a band and I never knew about music therapy,to visit and see her with her head down lost in her own world,and I could have made her journey so much better is heart breaking
Don’t blame yourself i think given the hand you were delt you handled it the best you could and stuck by her side although hindsight is 20/20 you were loyal to the end and that counts for everything
How wonderful. Why are nursing homes every where not doing this? Heck with the last 2 months we all need this
They do! I worked in a care home for two years and they know how beneficial it is for people with dementia. They have musicians in to play for them often, and there are radios in every room. Of course these people are old so they often just want some peace and quiet hahaha, but most of them love music. It really lights them up.
Budget limitations
Usually it’s due to a lack of funding for this “Music & Memory” program, as the iPods cost $ & experienced people need to implement it into the nursing homes, plus you need approval by the nursing home Directors. You can still overcome these challenges with funding from various grants.
Amen!
A lot of nursing home don’t want to be bothered.
my dad was diagnosed with dimentia/alziemers last month. that very moment when he had lost his memories i was singing his favorite song then he sings with me and began talking bout the way he used to share stories accurately and he was able to write few words. he is a music lover. he used to say that music is a form of therapy. he did proved it.
This is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD! Keep doing studies into this, please!!! Such an interesting topic!
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I’ll second that! For sure, beyond measure, important and impactful!
Please look for talks or books by the late Prof Oliver Sacks, brilliant neurologist and celebrated pianist who researched music in the treatment of neurological disease. Equally fascinating!
@@zs1dfr Thank you so much! I will! :)
Music should be intrduced to infants immediately. Music should be part of education from pre K to the end of life.
Yep! Ever notice how all of the good musicians started really young?
@@jaymeanderson5121 most of the greats started young in music, art, and sports. They excelled because they had the combination of passion and skill.
@@cb5501 yep. It’s engrained to their brain because they learned it so young
I started music with my babies when I was pregnant with them.
@@captainswan3079 same
"Music is the key to the soul"
This. Underrated quote. Where is it from if you don't mind me asking?
Absolutely!
My grandfather has Parkinson's disease. It was his birthday on the 1st of September a couple of days ago. My father video called him and my grandfather could barely speak when he answered. Then we sang happy birthday and after we finished singing, he immediately said thank you without any struggle in his voice. He still managed to talk even more after the song. It shows how powerful music is, even if it's just singing happy birthday.
Also, at my cousin's wedding in February, he actually stood up and danced a little bit, yet he could barely walk earlier that day.
This is amazing!!
I once worked with a nice women who had a stroke and had problems talking afterwards. Before she had the stroke she was a very good singer as I would later find out , very very talented.
A few weeks in working with her ,her daughter put on her mothers CD and she started to sing along! It was such an emotional moment.
We all cried :)
Music is very very powerful and I hope we will use it more in Healthcare!
We actually tried this with patients admitted in to the hospital and it really works
This is so wonderful :))))) I am in Canada, just completing a degree in sound therapy. The power of music is profound because we ARE music. Love that the science is coming out to show the world how this works! I plan to be working with Music and Memory in the new year!
Good luck in your career! We Are music 🎶
That lady at the end... Betty. The "emotionless" lady. Jesus christ keep giving her a daily dose of music cus she has such a wonderful smile! That cannot be kept from the world.
My dad was a very educated man, well read, and had been a lawyer, teacher, and a judge. He was ill and struggling mentally in his last years. He had great caretakers outside and inside the family. He would watch 2 musical shows over and over. Singin' in the rain and the wizard of oz. I just wish I knew how powerful music is so we could have played more diverse songs he liked. He was so smart he knew music was important even then. Miss him.
This is a very sweet video, and I enjoyed it. One note to caregivers, from one who's been there: Never ask a a person with dementia an open-ended question like, "who am I" or "do you remember this"? It causes distress and embarrassment, as in the woman who couldn't remember who her son was at 3:38. But what a great, informative video.
Yes! Having also done dementia care, I caught that as well and cringed. Unfortunately, even when one is aware that, that is not helpful and often creates anxiety in the patient, it's hard to break the habit.
This is true Patricia. Clearly the woman knows him, she cant find the right word for relationship.
I thought it was done deliberately to highlight the contrast between the before and after. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
@@Mariana-ud7dw I agree with you. They were doing this as an experiment.
That was simply incredible.
This is my 3rd time watching this 😊
Someone once told me that "I don't care what anyone says, if you don't like music, your a psychopath"
my dad works at a nursing home and he used to sing for fun during breaks for the old people's entertainment. his manager granted him an official time during his shifts to sing old hits now because she believes music definitely helps with the soul.
What a brilliant documentary!! I am deeply moved and it should be acknowledged worldwide ....as well as be used worldwide in all the mentionned fields ( Dementis, severe brain injury, Parkinsons disease etc) ....it is wonderful !! I will create my own favorite memory music lost- just in case !! Thank you so much for posting this !
Right!? Something so deep and powerfully impactful here
I have seen first hand the effect of music on those with dementia and it is astounding. The person literally comes to life and their recall vastly improves. I know that when my depression becomes unbearable, music is the one thing that helps me move forward.
I have PTSD and C-PTSD. Memory issues are core symptoms. They have even linked memory PTSD to Alzheimer's and dementia.
I can attest to not knowing who the hell I am and being confused, lacking a cohesive identity and not remembering the day before. When I was in the grip of trauma, I couldn't even register or listen to music. But now that a lot of the trauma dissipated, I think I'm finding music to be helping me regain cognition.
What a wonderful video. I’ve always believed that music is the universal language. I was a radio DJ for a while and my show was “Traveling around the World with music”. I would play music from all continents during my show. Even though you couldn’t understand the words, people really enjoyed the music and would call in with appreciation.
Im making a playlist of music year by year. Maybe one will survive when im old. Maybe someone else will benefit from them. Yeah they might not be clean but they are of the time
Smart ideas we all get there eventually.
I need music in my life, I can't go 1 day without listening to it. Music brings me great joy, great memories, and nostalgia. If I'm ever in a home or somewhere I may not want to be, music would make me be able to excape.
Same.
Some of my favorite quotes from his video:
- "Music is a human right."
- "It's like a side door into the brain."
- "Music is absolutely pivotal in the course of human evolution."
I always did that
to my patients!!!! and
its true they bring them back to life!!!!! in such beautiful way
Wonderful! Thank you!
music is magic! its amazing that you can pick up the lyrics to a song 20 years after hearing it.
The area of the brain that processes and remembers music is the very last area of the brain to go.
I had to fly home to Ireland 2 weeks ago my mum was not well she has dementia. I walked in started to sing the white cliffs of Dover and my wee mammy started to sing wave her arms and shouted here’s my Lynn, boy I cried my eyes out. I had been watching this the week before. I got my mammy back...even for a short time I was her Lynn
This is the most remarkable way to remember precious moments made in life. I recently watched a ballet dancer with dementia remember how she danced in Swan Lake apon hearing the music played in the production. Made me glad to have music exist in this world, and brought a few tears to my eyes.
I saw that video. It was breathtaking
@@dariapoklemba2150 I would like to see that video. Can you please tell me where to find it. Thank you
Music isnt Just Sounds...IT is Motion and Emotion
How wonderful that they find happiness even for a short time with the People they love.
Beautiful thing that music unlocks memories long forgotten....
This really confirmed what my late my mother said being careful about music.
What did your mom mean when she said be careful?
@@jwb2699 To be very choosy about music
@@matthewadun7104 can you imagine the 90 year who had listened to cardi b's WAP 😳
My grandmother used to ask, "Why are they screaming?", and that was back in the 70's.
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Ewww and I say that as Gen Z.
Let’s stick to beautiful music
You know what would be really great, is if they were able to somehow record smells, I'd love to be 90 years old and be able to smell grandma's cooking again, or the smell of the neighborhood as I walked to school on a cold, rainy day, or the smell of the fireplace on Christmas morning, or the smell of a fresh cut lawn, now only if someone could come up with an invention like that.
Scented candles to a specific smell could trigger certain memories. Maybe pine, cranberry, apple pie??? Just a few examples.
@@twilliams385
You know, one time, I smelled hair pie, it smelled like fish, but it tasted like chicken.
Incredible. Just...absolutely incredible. Brought me to tears watching these elderly folks become animated and singing... it's so beautiful to see this.
I saw this when I was volunteering for a dementia charity that provided holidays for dementia sufferers and their carers. Once a week there was a music day and the music would immediately make them all more coherent and open up and talk more to everyone.
I care for my Grandmother with dementia. It's amazing how some songs can just get her singing, laughing, and even dancing a little with her walker.
It a beautiful moment when it happens so I try and play her favorite songs regularly.
Music, just what the doctor should order for dementia patients AND comatose patients. My sister had an aneurysm & after her brain operation, doctors said after a month in a coma, that she would not wake up. It’s been too long so they want to send her to a rest home! Her 3rd son refused to send her & said, “my mom is walking out this hospital!” He brought to the Hosp a radio & his mom’s favorite music. He began playing her music, her eyes began to flutter & her feet began simulating “tapping” to the music. Doctor was called in but he said the reactions was automatic due to some stimuli we are not aware of. Then he left. The music continued to play then her eyes opened, her fingers were snapping to the music, & feet moving to the music. It works people! You don’t have to have dementia to test this. Change your day, play music you love, soothes the soul & lift the spirit! My sister walked out that hospital a few weeks later! Hallelujah!
That is beyond amazing! Hope she is doing well.
In England there are weekly meetings in some areas called "Singing for the Brain" for dementia patients. People get together and have a sing song. Amazing how the words and melodies come back
Me and my boys in 60 years listening to Everywhere at the end of time stage 4
the fact that i just came here after finishing stage 4 lmfao
imagine getting brought back to reality for a few moments because of hell sirens
I was thinking of eateot
This is incredible !. What a job , what dedication,
and love and care by these folk who look after the aged and infirm . and the amazing results music of their era can produce . Im not sure whether im blown away by the discovery of music as a relief or even healer , or by the love these doctors and staff have displayed for the sick and elderly in this video . Both I think , amazing , simply amazing . A most informative video , Thank you so much .
Indeed! 💕
If the nostalgia is great already from music we know from 10 years in the past.
Imagine now, music from 60 years in the past, that u don’t actually listen to for decades. That must be a real powerful feeling of waking up memories !! Just pure goldy joy
That’s just it, though-I really don’t think there will ever be music that I once loved that I haven’t listened to for decades. I spend so much time every day listening to music that I’ve just recently found as well as music from every other period of my life-there isn’t any music that belongs only to one portion of my life. Maybe that will change in the future, but I have a hard time imagining a future like that.
@@autumnphillips151 i understand u
But those old people came from a time when they didn’t have internet, smartphones.
I believe then it is even crazier and greater the nostalgia for them..
Amazing how art has such a long, deep relationship with people. Drawing, dancing, music has been with us as long as we have been a "us." Such a cool thing to know... 😌
That is actually so cool, and really says a lot about it’s meaning and significance at our cores. And it also is the kind of stuff that seems to all to often be ‘the first to go’ during funding cuts or institutions of control deciding what is essential, etc.
@@skittles2055 I agree. Art is our connection to the misty past, the turmoil of the present, and our hope for the future 😁
ZoomyBoomBoom 😊 artfully stated 💫
@@skittles2055 Thanks 🌼🌼
Oh jeez you’ve got me crying now
same, oh my god.
Me too😭
My nephew is a nurse/musician and applied a very similar technique (he did a CNN interview on the subject) and it is an absolutely amazing concept!…DEFINITELY needs to be an implement used in nursing homes and brain injury patients. Brilliant work on this!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Very interested look like it is important to do this especially in the nursing home
Yes! It can be a stimulant to those who cannot speak or communicate any other way. I witness a 69 yr old man (who had a stroke) and who had not been able to speak for over a month, tear up when his son played some of his favorite music (by his bed side). Something clearly was happening.
This is one of the greatest things to touch the internet. Truly amazing. It's pure, it's powerful, and it just means so much.
Dougs Mum is such a kind soul, so sweet.
Thank you so much ABC Science for featuring this amazing documentary. Please continue doing these kinds of inspirational and scientific studies. I just feel for those elderly who had lost their memories already and then when they hear a certain music that deeply affected them, there is a sudden progress in emotion and recall.
Who knew that something as simple as music could trigger such memories of one's youth in our seniors!
Keep in up! Don't stop!
When you really think about it, all this is just common sense. Music has such a profound effect on the whole brain, it is a trigger to so many memories and emotions it has to be beneficial. I have listened to all kinds of music consciously for sixty five years, it has given me all manner of "thrills"depending on the genre of the music being played. Why has it taken so long to be recognised as such???
Music is language.. it is always within us. bless the music
How sweet. Their eyes light up. Though I can't imagine putting my Mom in a nursing home. I'm proud to say she is almost 91,lives on her own,does her own banking,cooks and cleans with no assistance. I take her grocery shopping and we go to church together. Yes,sometimes she forgets and repeats the same stories,but that's just a way of remembering things.
For anyone involved in the treatment consider this, whilst the music brings memory up it may in fact be the soundwaves/frequencies stimulating nerves to area's of the brain that release various hormones/chemicals that reactivate cognitive functions. Each stimulus phase is then re-knitting memories together which then gives the client foundation blocks for self identification purposes recreating their persona. In turn it's helping them to re-gain confidence in themselves relaxing them as a result. Whilst not all aspects can be repaired it maybe enough to establish a strong enough foundation for them to manage everyday functionality. Please please trust me on this and look into this!!!!!
my idea is that the music is a strong stimulator of the existing neural pathways that are usually disconnected, providing a brief moment of clarity in those who cannot usually manually stimulate those pathways like we can when we recall things
i doubt it reactivates any cognitive functions as alzheimers and dementia are categorised by neurological damage, which is irreparable at this stage of human scientific development
You can see that the type of music influences different parts of the brain. By your hypothesis, you could simply emit sine waves at targeted frequencies to create meaningful effects in patients. You could even use the therapies with deaf people because it’s supposedly the physical movement of sound waves that cause the effects you describe. But these therapies are promoted by hippies and not the scientific community. They’re not shown to be significant beyond the placebo effect.
Me and the boys listening to gucci gang at age 90 to remember our childhood
😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏
ME?????? The boys and I
the homies are better lol
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I'll be over here head bangin' to Metallica!🤟
'We cannot talk about music's impact on our brains without talking about movement'
I worked at a senior living facility and I would sing to patients and more times then not they would sing with me word for word. I watched a similar documentary called alive inside , when I started to cry 😂 it was so inspirational and heart wrenching. It Livened them up almost instantly and bright then back memories . People who stopped speaking spoke again.
7:13 that guy saying music is better than drugs is great because it's true music can let you travel thru times past in your minds eye. This is wonderful and the one lady is right music is a human right and when I don't hear music I get very antsy and anxiety filled.
So beautiful. Made me cry
I am really wondering what kind of person would downvote this video - I feel kind of sad for them. This is a wonderful video!
My Mom is 76 and starting to develop dementia. She still lives home, and when I put on the TV station with the oldies music, even if she dozes off, she sings. And remembers things about the artists sometimes. And sometimes she just sings to herself, even dozing off.
I've meant to do something like this for her if she ends up in a home.
That study on how oxytocin release is so much more when singing togethqr explains why people make such strong bonds in musical theatre and why people used to sing working songs together.
... and church!
Wonderful story! There's something very special & powerful happening here and I hope the idea of incorporating music into the lives of those that, thru fault of their own, have drifted into a world of silence can live, breath & feel again. I've seen with my own eyes exactly how music can break all barriers & reach a place deep inside
Absolutely! Great comment 💕
I wish i had seen this a long time ago before my Mom died of Lewy body dementia.
I am sorry for your loss. And I also wish I had known this when my dear grandma was alive. What I do know we can do now, is spread the word at every opportunity to everyone ... encourage them to watch the documentary “Music and Memories” - they will see, like in this presentation on RUclips, what an amazing difference music can and does make.
My mother had advanced dementia, and was slumped in a chair, head down, among other similar folk when I walked into the lounge of the care home where she resided because I could no longer cope, and as I came up to her to hold her hands and kiss her head, her soft white hair, 'Moonlight Serenade' by Glenn Miller came playing into the room and I rose her up and we swayed together, she holding tight, responding to the music of the war years. It didn't matter that she didn't who I was. Robert UK.
Every single event and experience showed in this video means everything to me. I’m so glad I found it and I’ll sure share it to spread such a precious message, in order to make more people conscious of the healing power of music.
gonna be 105 listening to my 2017 spotify summer rewind lit af XD
it's weird that the grandparents and old people of the future are going to be using terms such as "lit af" in their old age lmfao
Music is great for all ages. It calms the mind and brings back personal memories, of the past that means much to us.
Music is the mystical medicine that penetrates the walls that block the consciousness of the minds of people who are suffering from a multitude of illnesses. It opens up the pathways of communications because it is a happy pleasurable memory. It gives instant recall of past experiences and motivates people to move and gives them past recollections that makes them come alive again ❤
I am a firm believer that music is great for the Mind, Body , Heart & Soul!
Music is the Magic! This is beautiful. Music and Memories should be in every nursing home and dementia care facility in the world!
I believe this is so awesome!!!!! GOD BLESS THEM....
This is such a beautiful video. Music is primal indeed! Brought tears to my eyes it was so moving. Thank you for all those who make a difference in their lives. 🙏🏽
This is extremely helpful to me with a brain injury and also helping someone with dementia. Thank you so much for this
Every time I see these, they make me cry. These therapists are doing amazing things.
How wonderful to see the joy in their faces.. 😍
I'm happy to find this because my grandmother has dementia but we've kept her out of nursing because we're certain she'd regress with the unknown. My mother drives over almost every night and either takes them out to dinner or cooks for them, I'll be sure to ask her to bring some of her favorite music.
Music is like a reset button for the brain...for the time they listen it reactivates the memory.
I had my music 30+ years ago .. I started re-recording it, but was hit with a massive stroke in brain. It keeps me alive. I still record but can't remember line for line.
*the power of music is truly amazing!*
I do not think that music helped make us.. But that we had to make music.. the music is in us.. we had no choice but to let it out.. Music has always been in me, from my earliest memories, I was always singing, making up tunes and words.. Even at 70 now I can make a song up about anything at any time.. especially when I am full of joy and happiness. It is just an outward expression of an inward feeling.. What fun this was.. You will probably never see this comment but I had to add it .. Well done.. Carry on!
It's interesting that music stimulates the brain even when memory starts to fade. in some cases even help to reduce people's drug dependency.
A few years ago met a retired man in his 70s who started learning piano so that he can play the piece he heard his father play many years ago. Assuming that he had little experience in music although he may have taken lessons in the past, he quickly mastered the piece. The man uses prescription painkillers regularly that supposedly help him cope with his anxieties. The music playing continues to this day and the prescription medications as well. Not sure if the music has a strong enough effect for him to do away with his medications totally or even partially.
This was a indeed unique video presentation. I have never witnessed something so intense before. To actually look at a shell of a once beautiful person and to witness how a disease can ravage a brain to the point of robbing someone of all memories and cognitive abilities is shocking. However to see the subjects to come alive once again if only for a brief period gave me a sensation of sadness then joy. I can only sincerely hope with todays and future technology research it can put a end to this dreaded curse before it is my time or others that I know or met to be struck with this terrible terrible disease.
It has been found with the elderly, that a chronic urinary tract infection can mimic dementia symptoms and, in some cases, violent outbursts for no reason. It's a urinary tract infection but has not the usual symptoms like in everyone else - urge to urinate, irritation in urinary tract etc. One doctor said the nursing homes are full of people diagnosed with dementia and senility and, when some are given antibiotics to cure the urinary tract infection, all the symptoms of dementia, etc, go away. That is, if it's really a urinary tract infection causing the symptoms of dementia and/or sudden violent outbursts. In some cases, it's actually dementia. Pays to get it checked out. If a doctor refuses to check your elderly relative/friend/etc for a urinary tract infection and they were diagnosed with dementia, find another doctor who will. In fact, if the urinary tract infection is causing the dementia symptoms, when antibiotics are given, within a few days, all the dementia symptoms are gone gone gone.
That’s good to know. My mother had severe Alzheimer’s and also an autoimmune disease that caused her to get frequent infections of various kinds. I noticed that her Alzheimer’s improved while on antibiotics, and her geriatric specialist said it was because antibiotics can have an anti-inflammatory effect on the brain. (Not sure if this applies to all antibiotics, or just the ones she was taking.)