Seniors Bring Song, Hope To Alzheimer Patients

All of a remarkable these people went from wilted flowering plants to blooming flowering plants right in front of me, she recalled. They were alert. They were singing. They were all opposite people. And it was like, oh my goodness. Music is so most some-more absolute than we had any idea.....
They call themselves a Show Stoppers, a merry band of senior adults who perform for people with Alzheimers.


They come to a shows as good as for a whilst they have been themselves again, said performer Lila Gilbert. And may be they forget it after, but for a whilst they have been themselves.

Lila Gilbert, 95, is a single of 27 in a troupe, which performs in some-more than 35 shows during some-more than a dozen locations around a city any year. Recently they starred during a 80th Street Residence in Manhattan.

I similar to watching a faces of a assembly as good as we will know if they have been receptive to what we do, said 91-year-old thespian Rosario Avelino. Thats what pleases me, when we see that.

The group's founder is low-pitched director Christina Britton Conroy, a professionally-trained opera thespian who changed careers as good as became a song therapist after she had a "tada" moment a single Yuletide whilst behaving during a nursing home.

All of a remarkable these people went from wilted flowering plants to blooming flowering plants right in front of me, she recalled. They were alert. They were singing. They were all opposite people. And it was like, oh my goodness. Music is so most some-more absolute than we had any idea.

Ordinary people spreading joy.

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