My Platform
Ask anybody. Whenever someone hears a certain song, their memory goes back to exactly where they were when they heard it. Several recent studies support the common connection people have with music and memories. The discovery may help to explain why music can elicit strong responses from people with Alzheimer's Disease. Music activity is located in the medial pre-frontal cortex region of the brain—right behind the forehead—and one of the last areas of the brain to atrophy over the course of Alzheimer's disease (musicandmemory.org).
No one wants to end up in a nursing home alone. It's hard enough to lose someone you love to Alzheimer's, as I know from personal experience, and it is terrifying to think you could end up yourself there someday. But there's reason to hope for a better life as we age. My platform is "Alive Inside," in dedication to my grandfather and the other 5 million Americans currently affected by memory loss diseases. I am passionately advocating music's ability to combat memory loss and restore Alzheimer's and Dementia patients' last remaining connection to life.
"Music can do things which language cannot." ~Dr. Oliver Sacks |
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