{"id":483,"date":"2013-08-19T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.LorianBartleStrings.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2017-12-16T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T21:02:35","slug":"483","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Music Memories and Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother developed dementia toward the end of her life.\u00a0 She had difficulty remembering who I was&#8211;at times not recalling that I was her granddaughter.\u00a0 Yet, she could recall songs in their entirety.\u00a0 Although the recollections of her present and more recent life were slipping away, her musical memories were intact!<\/p>\n<p>I came across a fascinating article in the New York Times that describes the powerful role music can play in the lives of those afflicted with Alzheimer&#8217;s and dementia.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/23\/the-songs-they-cant-forget\/?_r=0\">here<\/a> to read it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BartleGuitarStudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/K1BDF168CB_1000009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-489\" alt=\"K1BDF168CB_1000009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.BartleGuitarStudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/K1BDF168CB_1000009.jpg\" width=\"1038\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/K1BDF168CB_1000009.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/K1BDF168CB_1000009-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/K1BDF168CB_1000009-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/K1BDF168CB_1000009-469x300.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo of my grandmother, Hildegard Meyer-Wendt, playing the lute (ca. 1928)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother developed dementia toward the end of her life.\u00a0 She had difficulty remembering who I was&#8211;at times not recalling that I was her granddaughter.\u00a0 Yet, she could recall songs in their entirety.\u00a0 Although the recollections of her present and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/?p=483\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}