People with Dementia Find Renewed Confidence While Playing In Orchestra
With this goal in mind, Bournemouth University Dementia Institute (BUDI) in Dorset (UK) has found a unique method to help boost confidence and mood for people with all kinds of dementia. The program was originally set up in partnership with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Participants have found that the experience of playing in an orchestra has a positive effect on confidence and mood. Many participants have learned new skills while others have rediscovered old ones.
Music helped several of my loved ones with their aging issues, each in a unique way. The person who came to mind when I read about this orchestra is my mother-in-law. While Alice was never diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she definitely had a form of dementia. Now that diagnosing techniques are more refined, likely tests would show Alzheimer’s disease.
Alice had become so paranoid and lonely in her condominium, even with my daily help handling her meals and other issues, that it was obvious a move to the nursing home she could already see from her living room window was necessary. My…
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