Writer Chris Gray spends time with musicians from the orchestra as they unwrap the gift of music for patients at the Dementia Day Center.
CarePartners Dementia Day Center member Gladys Viltz dances with Holiday music performed by Houston Symphony Community Embedded Musicians Rainel Joubert, left, and David Connor at the winter performance and holiday party Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022.The holiday party at CarePartners’ Dementia Day Center is in full swing. Maybe 30 to 40 clients, known as"members," mingle with family members, enjoying cookies and hot chocolate in the center’s day room. Seventh-graders from nearby St.
“There’s the potential for it to always be like that,” Connor says of these monthly visits. “A lot of times they'll be dancing and singing along. It sort of depends on what members are there and what the energy’s like that day. But yeah, it can get pretty rowdy like that.”The party is just one of many events touched by the Houston Symphony’s department of education and community engagement, which arranges roughly 600 such interactions a year.
“They really bring them into the performance,” says the day center’s director, Andrea Williams. “It’s, ‘We’re here together,’ and they explore the music together with our members. They really take their time and pay a lot of attention to who our members are, and that's very important — for any volunteer or any group that comes in here.”
Music’s success in helping treat the symptoms of dementia — the deterioration of brain cells leading to loss of memory, cognitive ability, and emotional control — is undisputed, and encouraging. Studies consistently show how music stimulates the parts of the brain affected by the disease, creating “a surge of energy into those parts,” Scott explains. The day center’s staff see this every time the symphony musicians stop by.
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