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Music program helps penetrate the fog of dementia

Original post made on Feb 17, 2015

Inspired by the award-winning 2014 documentary "Alive Inside," Barbara Kalt is now adding "personalized music" — via iPods and individual playlists — to the array of activities offered at Rosener House, the Menlo Park day program for adults of which she has been executive director for two decades.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 7:15 PM

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Posted by Louise68
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Feb 17, 2015 at 9:27 pm

Thank you so much for this wonderful and heart-warming story! I had no idea that music therapy was done at any nursing home. It is so wonderful and heartening to read that something so helpful and good is being done for some of our most vulnerable and needy people -- people with memory impairment.

I hope this kind of personalized music therapy will be offered everywhere for people with memory impairment.

I just love positive stories like this one. More, please!

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