Music For Maternity

On her worst days, when she cannot stop crying or shake the agitation, it is music that calms the 79-year-old Alzheimer’s patient. Nine years into her diagnosis, the woman who once loved to sing and dance, who worked as an attorney in Pittsburgh, no longer can muster up lyrics. The disease has taken her speech, as it did her memory of daily routines, of people and events, and even her knowledge of self.
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