• UK music projects aim to transform lives of people with dementia

    Music can reduce agitation and medication and two initiatives are trying to give everyone the chance to benefit from its powerCatherine has lived with dementia for five years. She can no longer find the words to talk to her children, but when she sings with her dementia choir she remembers the lyrics to songs from her childhood and joins in with word-perfect gusto.Mark, diagnosed with dementia last year, was becoming isolated and depressed. Until, that is, his care home started a choir. Graduall

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