See the latest Facebook post from Simon below. Alzheimer’s disease mostly affects seniors (but is known to also occur in other age brackets) and for the families of the patients, its impact can be really heart-breaking. Sadly for the McDermott family, they have to go through the everyday pain of not being remembered by the …
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Amid the coronavirus outbreak, people across Italy have been put under a mandatory lockdown, which is expected to last until at least next month. While there are 60 million Italians currently stuck in their homes, some citizens are making the most out of it. In Siena, a city in central Italy’s Tuscany region, several quarantined …
Chart-topping musicians can come from all backgrounds, but this musical sensation is certainly a sweet surprise. Margaret Mackie, an 83-year-old woman with dementia and resident of Northcare Suites Care Home, a senior care facility in in Edinburgh, Scotland, just recorded a heartwarming version of “My Way” with her caregiver – and it’s a certified hit! …
Hospice inpatient facility care is often perceived as a very sad place to be in. End-of-life care really didn’t have much to it other than plain hospital walls, routine check-ups, and every best effort to make a dying man’s last few days on this earth to be as comfortable as possible. However, one nurse who …
They say that music has a magical power to soothe, touch, and take over one’s soul. For Marcio Donaldson, this belief speaks volume of truth. For a child who was placed in foster care together with his sister, Marcio had no one but music to give his mind an escape from his situation. But more …
In recent years, especially in television talent shows, ventriloquism have quite earned a following. It’s a kind of entertainment where a person makes use of a dummy that is often a puppet, and makes it talk using the person’s voice without making it seem too obvious. There are many known ventriloquists in America such as Jeff …
Singing often makes people good especially when it’s done in the car. It always brings feel-good hormones that make someone happy and worry-free throughout their journey. Essentially, there’s a psychology behind this euphoria. Using the voice to sing instead of just talking offers surprising and exceptional benefits. According to the Music Therapy department chair at …