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Sunrise of Knowle - Singing Therapy

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Sunrise Senior Living believes that their approach to residential care for dementia sufferers, 'Reminiscence', is a more positive approach to the challenges of memory loss and dementia. In keeping with this, Sunrise of Knowle has launched a new programme, "Singing to Reminisce".

Led by Honor Keatley and Libby Service, the sessions will encourage residents, friends, family members and local Alzheimer's groups to join in with songs from their lives. There will be seven elements to the sessions including:

Exercises - warm up,
Cognition - singing rounds, repetition, songs with actions, using props, songs with different tempos, responding to instructions and singing from memory.
Engagement - eye contact, hand contact throughout songs.
Confidence - enabling participants.
Relationships - developing new friendships and a sense of belonging.
Ensuring equality - everyone can bring something to our group even if it is simply by being there.
Empowerment - a job for everyone. Some participants may want to help set up, play and instrument, lead a group, come up with new songs/ideas.

Honor Keatley from Sunrise Knowle said 'The whole idea is to get people together to enjoy the experience and have some fun'. For details on our next event, contact our community today.