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It's well known fact among those who have anything to do with retirement homes: really old people with severe dementia and other such ailments have no problem r
by 1024core 2y ago
It's well known fact among those who have anything to do with retirement homes: really old people with severe dementia and other such ailments have no problem recalling music, their favorite songs, etc.
- amelius 2y agoIsn't the problem that older people lose their short-term memory rather than their long-term memory?
- TylerE 2y agoOnce it gets bad, it's everything. I've got about a 1/4 chance of my grandmother calling me the correct name at this point. She knows I'm one of her grandkids, but isn't really sure which is which.
- Loughla 2y agoFor anyone else reading, take time to write down the stories the older people in your life tell. We did storyworth with my 102 year old grandpa. It was cool, but really just asking questions and receiving answers would've been okay. We did it when he was 90, and happy now that he's getting a little demented.
- JALTU 2y agoI have a nice video of my mother a week before she passed, singing along with the YouTube video of an old song. Her dementia and stroke excised her short term memory but she knew this song about an old love of some sort. And she teared up while singing it... RIP, mom!
- winrid 2y agowhich is neat because I have absolutely no memory for music. I love music, but I could never recall a single song in entirety other than simple ones I currently sing our kid.