Sessions like this. residents come alive, their mood brightens, their memories reawakened. today s report from the music industry and the charity music for dementia is calling for music to become a key part of the way the illness is treated. we have this amazing tool at our fingertips that we are not using any where near as much as we could be to support people s health and wellbeing. that we have got music positioned as a key public health tool and that it is not seen as a nicety, that it is seen as an absolute necessity and it s embedded into social and health care practice. # and it don t seem so lonely. that call for change is echoed by the dementia choir. i want to see it put into a system so that when you get a diagnosis, it is immediately given to you as something that will help. # sweet caroline! there is so much power in something
Residents come alive, their mood brightened, their memories reawakened. today s report from the music industry and the charity music for dementia is calling for music to become a key part of the way the illness is treated. we have this amazing tool at our fingertips that we are not using any where near as much as we could be to support people s health and wellbeing. that we have got music positioned as a key public health tool and that it is not seen as a nicety, that it is seen as an absolute necessity and it s embedded into social and health care practice. # and it don t seem so lonely. that call for change is echoed by the dementia choir. i want to see it put into a system so that when you get a diagnosis, it is immediately given to you as something that will help. # sweet caroline! there is so much power in something that you just wouldn t think is as powerful as it is, but it is. because i see it every time i m with the choir. # sweet caroline!
We know that it does something to the brain, but what has happened now with dementia, and the signs that we ve started to look into, is that it actually scientifically does something to the brain, so it hits a certain part of the brain that makes you feel pleased, or hits a certain emotion. so that s scientific evidence that it is working. paul comes alive at the piano. his tune was taken up by the bbc philharmonic orchestra and was released as a single. it s raised more than £1 million for charity and is helping to fund music therapy sessions in care homes. sessions like this, residents come alive, the mood brightened, their memories