Interesting When, I shall look at the game later.
I've just finished reading Sally Magnusson's book "Where Memories Go" about her mother and Alzheimer's - her mother had always loved singing and towards the end as her mother became increasingly distressed, she responded positively as Granjura writes, to familiar songs and music.
Sally found out as much as she could about dementia and discovered that research was being done in New York about the effects of music on dementia sufferers. At the end of the book, she writes:
"Having observed the effect of familiar music on my mother's mood, awareness, cognition and sense of identity, and inspected the growing body of academic evidence, I decided soon after her death to start a UK charity.
Inspired by Music and Memory in New York, Playlist for Life aspires to make it possible for people diagnosed with dementia to have access to their own personally designed playlist at any time of the day or night...........Since constructing and then delivering a playlist to someone with little memory requires talking, listening, finding out, trying out and observing, it demands personal interaction of a kind much needed by people at every stage of dementia.
The aspiration of the charity is that uniquely meaningful music on a digital device like an iPod will help answer the need for non-pharmaceutical therapeutic interventions in the treatment of all forms of dementia"
www.playlistforlife.org.uk