Music For Maternity

Throughout the moving new documentary Alive Inside, senior citizen after senior citizen awakens from the near-catatonia of advanced Alzheimer’s or dementia to sing, tap feet, and even dance when an iPod plays music from his or her past. One man who spends his days slumped over in a wheelchair in an institution suddenly starts swaying and belting it out along with a gospel song; another woman, who still lives at home but can’t so much as differentiate the elevator’s up button from the down one, boogies around her living room to the Tremeloes’ “Fa La La, La La, La Le”.  Read more here…