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Radio 4,6 mins

“Her old self comes back to life”

Woman's Hour

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BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour has been talking to women with dementia about how music helps them cope. At a Singing for the Brain group, run by the Alzheimer’s Society in Hackney, one daughter told reporter Henrietta Harrison her mother was, “just a different person. She's dancing, she's very sociable, wants to be part of everything."

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