Singing familiar songs may help prompt Alzheimer’s patients to speak

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Singing familiar songs may help prompt Alzheimer’s patients to speak

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) â€" With advanced Alzheimer’s disease, language deteriorates and patients spontaneously speak less and less. In a small study from Israel, group music therapy sessions using tailored songs helped people with middle- to late-stage Alzheimer’s strike up communication. The study may be small, but it nicely demonstrates what music therapists and gerontologists have known for a while, said Alicia Ann Clair, director of the Music Education and Music Therapy Division at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, who wasn’t part of the study.

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