• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    for older folks like those currently suffering from dementia - try christmas carols or religious music played/sung during the big religious ceremonies.

    i spent years thinking what sort of music i could play my great grandma, because what music was even there in the 1930s in rural poland? but the last christmas we had with her we put on some christmas carols, and she came back alive a little. it was magical

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      Oh for a lot of immigrants I do wind up resorting to folk music, and there’s a lot of overlap with hymns and other spiritual music.