Case Study: Music as a tool to help elderly patients with dementia

One of the themes of this semester was looking at how music can be used as therapy for patients with dementia. We looked at the documentary Alive Inside which showed the same response that is shown in the video below.

This moving footage is of one of the students relatives being played music from her teenage years, before the music was played she could not remember the name of the song or where she heard it.

The footage shows an almost instant and very moving responce to the music.