My Alzheimer's group has been singing Morning Has Broken with lyric sheets for the past several weeks. The song is "new" to the group, in that nobody remembered it when I first introduced it. After several weeks with it, they still think it is a pretty song, but nobody recognized it.
On the other hand, the group loves to play a ball game. Every week somebody else tells us what the rules are. Even when the person I call on to explain the rules has difficulty saying the rules, they almost always at least gesture how the game goes.
One gentleman said his upper teeth have been missing for several days now and his mouth is getting sore from trying to eat like that. I wonder why they don't adjust his diet until the teeth get fixed or replaced? They have been missing for over a week.
Huntley Brown has a fun jazz piano rendition of Old Time Religion that we use for "scarf exercise." The music itself suggests certain movements such as bouncing higher and lower and the best part is the end, with a chorus line sound to it. By the time it's all over, everybody is kicking their legs out besides bouncing the scarf. There are also lots of big smiles.
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