For a little longer than a minute, dementia-stricken Marta Cinta Gonzalez is once more a prima ballerina. Ballerina Marta C. Gonzalez - who lived with dementia - is taken back to her days dancing in Swan Lake thanks to the power of music. The Ancient Greeks believed in music and the arts as therapy and, today, music therapy is often used as part of dementia treatment. ‘You might expect events that happened long ago to be forgotten first, while things that happened more recently are easier to recall,’ Prof Crutch says. For this reason, music therapy for people with dementia uses songs from an individual’s younger days.

Source: Daily Mail November 14, 2020 22:02 UTC