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Music and Dementia
Woman's Hour has been talking to women with dementia about how music can help.
"For that moment there was our dancing queen again"
Shelagh on the transformational effect music can have on those living with dementia
“Music was pulling us apart as a couple”
After her dementia diagnosis Agnes couldn’t cope with her husband’s love of country music
“Her old self comes back to life”
Women at a Singing for the Brain group in Hackney explain how singing helps them.
"I was very quiet... dementia gives me more of a voice"
Teresa remembers painting her bedroom ceiling red and says dementia helps her speak up
How and why music can be helpful to people living with dementia
For BBC Music Day we discuss the use of music therapy in dementia with three experts.
