Henrietta Bredin

Communicating through music

Henrietta Bredin on how Music for Life can help overcome the isolation of dementia sufferers

issue 12 December 2009

Henrietta Bredin on how Music for Life can help overcome the isolation of dementia sufferers

I am looking at an elderly woman, tiny in a huge armchair. She has not spoken for months, she has not maintained eye contact with anyone for even longer and she has developed a nervous compulsion to keep one hand always up to her chin, covering her mouth.

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