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[quote=Anonymous]OP is your mom getting any music therapy? There is a lot of research now on the power of music in soothing dementia patients. I’ve worked with several dementia patients over the last several years I’ve been working in elder care and it’s remarkable the difference where music is regularly used. One very advanced Alzheimer’s patient who was being cared for at home was managed very well with regular music therapy- his wife had filled an iPod with all his favorite songs from his youth and young adulthood and we played it on a loop in the home during the day with caregivers. He came alive in all the best ways and was soothed more than patients I worked with who didn’t have music on offer.

If you Google music and Alzheimer’s you’ll find tons of information about this therapy. It’s an easy way to help soothe your loved one in this journey - not perfect but better than a lot of other approaches. Music goes somewhere in our brains that is the last to go in the dementia journey. There is a very good documentary about Glenn Campbell’s journey with Alzheimer’s that really illustrates the power of music to ease the path.[/quote]

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