A dementia-friendly choir in Sheboygan gathers more than 30 voices
People living with dementia, their caregivers, and neighbors sing together in the Janet L. Herrick Dementia-Friendly Choir. The group performs November 21 at Uptown Social.
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More than 30 people sing together in Sheboygan's Janet L. Herrick Dementia-Friendly Choir, Channel3000 reported, in a story from WTMJ and CNN Newsource. The singers include people living with dementia, the caregivers beside them, and neighbors.
The choir has a performance set for November 21 at Uptown Social. The report is about that shared singing, not a treatment claim and not a promise about how any one person's memory will change.
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