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Sweet Memories Choir
St Raphaela’s Convent, Upper Kilmacud Road, StillorganResearch suggests that listening to or singing songs can provide emotional and behavioural benefits for people with various types of dementia. Musical memories are often preserved because key brain areas linked to musical memory are relatively undamaged by the disease. Music has been shown to: • Relieve stress. • Reduce anxiety and depression. • Reduce […]
The Pleasure of Art
Patrician Community Centre, StillorganOur Art class provides an opportunity for participants to engage in meaningful self- expression, pleasure, and enjoyment as well as in enhanced communication with others in the group. It can put people in touch with their life’s memories and experiences. Art is often a powerful method to express the physical changes as well as the […]
Dance
Community Centre, Church of the Holy Family, Bakers Corner, Kill O’the Grange Community Centre, Church of the Holy Family, Bakers Corner, Kill O’the GrangeLiving Well with Dementia runs a weekly ‘Movement to Music’ Class which is led by Robert Connors, Artistic Director of the Dance Theatre of Ireland. The therapeutic effects of music and dance have been shown to increase self-awareness, encourage social interaction, help with depression, provide fun and healthy self-expression, maintain and, at times, improve memory […]