DailyBeast Op-Ed: Treat Dementia With Music, Not Drugs
Yesterday The Daily Beast published an op-ed I wrote about the extraordinary power of music to transform the lives of people living with dementia.
The concept is elegantly simple: Provide a dementia sufferer with an MP3 player that has been loaded with music tailored to their taste. Let them listen. Ask them about it.
I was privileged
to be part of an extraordinary film, Alive Inside by Michael
Rossato-Bennett, that documented the small miracles as life re-ignites
in the eyes of long-term dementia sufferers when they hear familiar
tunes for the first time in years. You can watch Alive Inside in select
theaters this summer and on DVD and iTunes this October. Visit www.aliveinside.us for a calendar of theatrical showings in cities nationwide. You won’t be sorry. In fact, you just might change a life.
No comments:
Post a Comment