For the past 20 years I have worked actively with elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias as well. Let me tell you that the treatment and methods have really changed and improved during that time too. What brought me to this work was actually an assignment from my department chair and mentor, […]
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Music with Alzheimer's Patients is amazingly powerful
Recently, I have been working with a gentleman in this 80’s who is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease. He is a retired minister and was and is much beloved in our community. Each week I go to his home and he sits on the couch, facing the piano, with his wife on one […]