{"id":408,"date":"2015-02-01T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/?p=408"},"modified":"2021-01-24T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:12:23","slug":"the-power-or-singing-show-tunes-for-those-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"The power of singing show tunes for those with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent research study found that those suffering from moderate to severe dementia did particularly well singing show tunes from movies and musicals such as &#8216;The Wizard of Oz,&#8217; &#8216;The Sound of Music&#8217; and &#8216;Oklahoma!&#8217; in group settings and had a marked improvement in their remembering skills versus those who simply listened during the sing-alongs.<\/p>\n<p>Much of our Song for Life sessions builds on this as we include songs from the shows and stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/life-style\/health\/singing-show-tunes-helps-fight-dementia-study-article-1.1513903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/life-style\/health\/singing-show-tunes-helps-fight-dementia-study-article-1.1513903<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent research study found that those suffering from moderate to severe dementia did particularly well singing show tunes from movies and musicals such as &#8216;The Wizard of Oz,&#8217; &#8216;The Sound of Music&#8217; and &#8216;Oklahoma!&#8217; in group settings and had a marked improvement in their remembering skills versus those who simply listened during the sing-alongs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songforlife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}