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“Her old self comes back to life”
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour has been talking to women with dementia about how music helps them cope.
At a Singing for the Brain group, run by the Alzheimer’s Society in Hackney, one daughter told reporter Henrietta Harrison her mother was, “just a different person. She's dancing, she's very sociable, wants to be part of everything."
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Music and Dementia—Woman's Hour
Woman's Hour has been talking to women with dementia about how music can help.
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