Music is powerful and can enrich the lives of people with Alzheimer’s because it allows self-expression and engagement even after dementia has progressed.
Alzheimer’s is a type of neurodegenerative disease that impacts memory and destroys other important mental functions of a person. This progressive disease usually starts slowly and worsens with time. Experts say that Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that has an impact on a person’s memory, behaviour and thinking.
Music is powerful and can enrich the lives of people with Alzheimer’s because it allows self-expression and engagement even after dementia has progressed. Experts say that studies show that music reduces agitation and also helps in improving behavioral issues that are common in the middle stages of the disease.
Listening to music or singing songs help provide emotional and behavioral benefits for people suffering with Alzheimer’s. Musical memories are often preserved in the patient’s mind because key brain areas linked to musical memory are relatively undamaged by the disease.
Researchers at the University of California believe music stimulates many parts of the brain that affect language, mood, movement, sense of hearing, sight, sound and touch at the same time. They further said that the effect a song will have on someone can often be determined by a person’s past emotional experience with that song.
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