Experts look to music as way to uncover past buried by dementia - KansasCity.com http://bit.ly/dpOvDd #LTCReform:

One had to look closely, but the white sneaker definitely tapped the floor.

Slightly, softly, steadily. Like a heartbeat.

“What does the music remind you of, Marsha?” the caregiver at Villa Ventura in south Kansas City asked loud enough to be heard above the headphones.

The woman looked up, a bit puzzled at first, then: “Being alive.”

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