Montessori Dementia Attention - Elevator Every Voice!
Working conduct amongst people who are living amongst dementia together with their caregivers has taught us a number of valuable life lessons.
We would similar to portion ii of these lessons amongst you.
By Tom together with Karen Brenner
1. SING!
We observed really early on inwards our operate inwards dementia that people who hadn’t spoken for a really long fourth dimension could notwithstanding ofttimes sing.
Not solely could they sing, they remembered all the words to songs! It was amazing to run across people who sat mute for months at a fourth dimension all of a abrupt calorie-free upwardly together with foremost singing amongst gusto together with joy.
Once nosotros observed this phenomenon, nosotros began to construct lots of unlike exercises around singing.
We role the procedural retentivity organisation inwards our Montessori approach to dementia care together with believe inwards the importance of putting something meaningful inwards a person’s hands.
With this inwards mind, nosotros created vocal books inwards large impress for the choirs nosotros formed inwards long term attention homes together with adult 24-hour interval centers. These vocal books could go based on holidays or hymns or go built around themes (marching songs, dearest songs, comedy songs, together with identify songs).
It does non thing if the singers are good, it solely matters that they sing!
Recent scientific inquiry backs upwardly the persuasion that singing tin give notice elevator upwardly the spirits of the people singing.
This inquiry demonstrates that singing (especially grouping singing) releases several mood lifting hormones: endorphins that do the “feel good” biochemical, oxytocin, the hormone that brings forth feelings of dearest together with connection.
Both of these biochemicals lessen feelings of depression together with loneliness.
As well, grouping singing tends to lower levels of cortisol, the stress related hormone. Research likewise proved that singing together syncs multiple catch rates. This form of synchronization has the same calming number equally would a session of grouping meditation.
Older people come upwardly from a generation who sang together often; inwards church, inwards school, on street corners.
If nosotros tap into this experience of grouping singing, we give our elders the chance to experience calmer, happier, to a greater extent than at peace together with to bond amongst their swain residents, families together with friends. The French philosopher, Voltaire, famously wrote, “Life is a shipwreck together with nosotros must squall upwardly to sing inwards the lifeboats!”
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Tom Brenner is a gerontologist who specializes inwards creating dementia attention programs that are forcefulness based together with positive leaning. His wife, Karen, is a Montessori educator who co-founded a Montessori schoolhouse for children who are deaf. The Brenner’s select worked together for the yesteryear xx years researching together with implementing the application of the Montessori Method for positive dementia care.
After years of working conduct amongst people living amongst dementia together with their caregivers, the Brenners published a mass nearly their work, You Say Goodbye together with We Say Hello: The Montessori Method for Positive Dementia Care. Tom together with Karen go throughout the United States of America of America presenting workshops, preparation programs together with speaking engagements nearly their uplifting together with positive approach to dementia care.
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