
Alive Inside
I want to tell you about an amazing must-see documentary called, “Alive Inside,” that shows how music can reawaken Alzheimer’s patients at almost every stage of the disease and give them back a sense of self. The film follows Dan Cohen, the executive director of Music & Memory, who in 2006, volunteered to create individual musical play-lists for residents of a nursing home in New York. Most of the individuals he worked with were in late stages of Alzheimer’s. Many sat all day