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12 Questions Every Caregiver Should Ask About Music in Their Parent’s Senior Living Community, Sixty and Me, June 30, 2025
We May Soon Be Telling a Very Different Kind of Story About Dementia.
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12 Questions Every Caregiver Should Ask About Music in Their Parent’s Senior Living Community
Sixty and Me - When you’re choosing or evaluating a senior living community for your loved one, it’s easy to focus on safety, meals, and medical care – and all of those matter deeply. But there’s another element that often gets overlooked and is just as essential to their quality of life: entertainment, especially music.
We May Soon Be Telling a Very Different Kind of Story About Dementia
NYT - The dementia tragedy narrative tells a story of inexorable decline and universal diminishment. While this process may include moments of lucidity or levity, nothing substantially positive, life-giving or new can emerge for the person or her family and friends — because the person as person is disappearing. The trouble with this well established approach is not that the tragedy narrative is completely false. The problem is that narrating them in this manner, turning a multidimensional phenomenon into a story of unidirectional decline and disappearance, reinforces stigma around cognitive disability.
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