History of Marriott-Slaterville City Volume XVI January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

LiVe Well Senior's Health A NEWSLETTER WITH IMPORTANT HEALTH INFORMATION FOR SENIORS September 2015 Music and Memory "Sometimes it only takes one song to bring back a thousand memories ." We have all had that moment while walking through a grocery store or shopping in the local mall when a certain song plays over the loud speaker sending us to another time and place. We are swept away with strong emotions of happiness or sadness. Music is the soundtrack of our lives and the classic hits from our teenage years and our twenties often stimulate more memories than the music from later years. Psychologists have called this the 'reminiscence bump'. Teenage years are an especially exciting time in our lives, we are experiencing things for the first time and we are becoming independent Our brains are hard wired to connect music with long term memory. Music and memory has become an important therapy to help people with severe dementia, Parkinson's and other diseases that damage brain chemistry, to calm chaotic thoughts and allow the listener to focus on the present moment and gain a connection to others. -Stgvis N^^onder According to neurologist Oliver Sack; "Music can evoke emo tions and emotions can bring back memory even in the most advanced Alzheimer's patient It brings back the feeling of life like nothing else can." Studies have shown music is an excellent way to reach beyond the disease and reach the person. Music does awaken the brain. The evidence is so convincing that lead researchers Dr. Frederick Schaerf and Angel Duncan take an hour to put on head phones daily and listen to their favorite music. Cretien van Campen, author of The, Proust Effect: The Senses as Doorways to Lost Memories wrote: "People worry a lot today about forgetting and the problems with memory. But the beauty is today we are beginning to help with remembering." For many of us that is music to our ears! (Source: www.alzheimers.net, BBC Culture) iiWi-x Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital