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“Music Can Be So Healing”: A Mother’s Journey

September 21, 2015

The other day, Suzanne Godfrey was playing music for her 19-year-old daughter when Brown Eyed Girl came on. Suzanne began […]

Filed Under: Alzheimer's and Dementia, Caregivers at Home, How You Can Help, Volunteer Heroes Tagged With: benefits of personalized music, fundraising ideas, Heller's Syndrome, iPod donation drive, volunteer ideas

How You Help: Your Donated iPod’s Journey through MUSIC & MEMORY®

August 12, 2015

So, what actually happens to your donated iPod, once it arrives here at Music & Memory? Rest assured, it’s treated […]

Filed Under: How You Can Help, News, Nursing Home Culture Change Tagged With: iPod donation drive, iPod Shuffle, nursing home culture change, volunteer ideas

Bridging the Generations: Baptist Park School Students Help Seniors Reclaim Their Favorite Music—and Their Stories

April 22, 2015

When the six high school students first met last fall in Nancy Van Alstyne’s class, “Music and the Mind,” they […]

Filed Under: Alzheimer's and Dementia, How You Can Help, Nursing Home Culture Change, Volunteer Heroes Tagged With: Baptist Park School, benefits of personalized music, iPod donation drive, nursing home culture change, student interns, volunteer ideas

A Hand to Hold: Why 911 Responder Andrea Entus Became a MUSIC & MEMORY® Ambassador

January 30, 2015

Whenever Florida’s Boca Raton Fire Rescue ambulance team arrives at a nursing home, Andrea Entus makes a point to talk […]

Filed Under: Alzheimer's and Dementia, How You Can Help, Nursing Home Culture Change, Volunteer Heroes Tagged With: Alzheimer's, benefits of personalized music, dementia, Music & Memory Ambassadors, nursing home culture change, volunteer ideas

Helping Other Caregivers: How One Resident Powers MUSIC & MEMORY® for Kendal at Lexington

December 23, 2014

Five years ago, when Jack Geikler and his wife, Pat, moved into independent living accommodations at Kendal at Lexington, Virginia, […]

Filed Under: Alzheimer's and Dementia, Nursing Home Culture Change, Volunteer Heroes Tagged With: Alzheimer's, caregiver support, caregivers, CCRC, dementia, Kendal at Lexington Virginia, nursing home culture change, volunteer ideas

How to Build on “Alive Inside” Energy to Support Local MUSIC & MEMORY® Programs

October 3, 2014

At hundreds of Alive Inside screenings around the country this summer, we’ve heard from audience members who are inspired to […]

Filed Under: How You Can Help, Volunteer Heroes Tagged With: Alive Inside, Alzheimer's, benefits of personalized music, fundraising ideas, iPod donation drive, nursing home culture change, volunteer ideas, Wisconsin Music & Memory Initiative

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