"For that moment there was our dancing queen again"
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4 Woman's Hour has been talking to women with dementia about how music helps them cope. Shelagh, 79, from Madeley in Staffordshire lives with her husband Paul who also has dementia. She tells Henrietta Harrison how music affects them and how Irish Republican protest songs transport her back to her childhood. She also reveals how The Blue Danube Waltz soothed her mother at the end of her life.
Woman’s Hour first spoke to Shelagh at a Dementia Diaries event in Birmingham. The group record their experiences about living with dementia and post on dementiadiaries.org.
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