If you see this simple idea in action, you can maybe transform the final years of someone you love - and it is so simple.....
If you have a family member or a friend with dementia this documentary is a MUST SEE.
The film shows that the power of music, via an Ipod, can truly raise the comatose
“from the dead”.
When you watch the filmmaker turn on a patient’s favourite music,
there is an instant transformation. Watching the faces of the elderly who are
otherwise helpless and lifeless, suddenly become animated and tell us the name of
their favourite song – and sing along with all the words, brought tears to my
eyes (and I noticed the bloke next to me had something itchy on his cheek too).
One woman patient pushed away her walker and began to dance to a Latin American
jazz tune (in time to the beat, she grasped the filmmaker as her partner, and
turned him around in time to the music. It was truly breathtaking.
Hearing is the first sense we acquire in the womb and the
last to go at death. While scientists do not really understand how the brain
processes all this information, what is certain is that once you can find out
what music loved ones listened to and loved when younger, replaying it again as
memory fades, allows patients to return to a former period in life when they
felt safe and loved, rather than the scary unknowable world they currently
inhabit as memory deserts them.
If you missed the
film at the festival – there is a lot of info out there on the internet and
YouTube talking about the movie and the research behind it. With this
information you can truly transform someone’s life and old age. Thousands of
people have already done so for their loved ones.
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