Music as Medicine: Using Music to Help Dementia and Alzheimer's Patients
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 10:42
in Psychology & Sociology
Music and voice major Jessica Voutsinas '18 was singing the classic song "Over the Rainbow" to a resident at Longview -- an adult residential facility near the Ithaca College campus -- when the woman unexpectedly lit up and began telling stories about her life and children in a breakthrough of memory recall.