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Music Impacts Learning, Health & Wellness of Seniors

Posted by katie at 2:34 pm

From the American Music Conference Website:

Senior citizens who are actively involved in music making enjoy significant health benefits. For example, studies who that music activates the cerebellum and therefore may aid stroke victims regain language capabilities.

Many of the challenges that plaque older Americans appear to respond positively to active music making. For example, scientific studies show improvements in the brain chemistry of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Studies show that older Americans who are actively involved in music making show improvements in anxiety, loneliness, and depression-three factors that are critical in coping with stress, stimulating the immune system, and improving health.

A breakthrough study demonstrated that group keyboard lessons given to older Americans had a significant effect on increasing levels of human growth hormone (hGH), which is implicated in such aging phenomena as osteoporosis, energy levels, wrinkling, sexual function, muscle mass, and aches and pains.

Original post: http://www.amc-music.com/seniors_social.htm

A Great Gift for Seniors!

Posted by katie at 5:28 pm

Enriching the Lives of Seniors One DVD at a Time

Posted by katie at 3:28 pm

New entertainment is limited for older Americans. With complex dialogue, long run times and unwholesome storylines, many seniors depend on old films and TV shows to pass their time. While most shows are entertaining few provide entertainment and health benefits. With most Americans spending many hours a week watching TV, having it be pleasurable and profitable would be ideal.

Night To Remember, the short film musical made for senior citizens, is a tribute to the years gone by. It provides seniors with quality entertainment that triggers memory and emotion from the best years of their life. Night To Remember is a romantic, nostalgic, experience they can enjoy over and over again. What Mr. Rogers has done for children; Night to Remember could do for the aging population. Petr Janata, associate professor of Psychology at UC Davis center for Mind and Brain commented in a recent article, “What seems to happen is that a piece of familiar music serves as a soundtrack for a mental movie that starts playing in our head. It calls back memories of a particular person or place, and you might all of a sudden see that person’s face in your minds eye,” he continues, “Memory for autobiographically important music seems to be spared in people with Alzheimer’s.

This film is dialogue-free, simple, wholesome and romantic. Included in each set is a DVD and CD soundtrack and ideas about how to incorporate the DVD into the life of seniors all for only $24.99. With the benefits this film provides and the potential health benefits associated with it, giving it to parents and grandparents is a great option. Why not make this Holiday a Night To Remember? To order viist NightToRememberDVD.com or call 1-800-532-0779

If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Katie Connett, please call 1-800-532-0779 ext 101or e-mail Katie at Katie@NightToRememberDVD.com

Night to Remember DVD

Posted by katie at 3:23 pm

Senior Entertainment Enterprises (SEE) is the most comprehensive resource for the care of older Americans and issues pertaining to aging. By enriching the last years of life, we promote a high quality of life in all of our communities.

Recently, with the launch of our first DVD Night To Remember, we have had the ability to reach out to senior citizens in a way never been done before.

So why is this DVD different?

Currently, there is no new recorded entertainment directly marketed for people later in life. The movies that are put out today and geared toward the general public and consist of too much dialogue, un-wholesome behavior, and fast moving editing and film styles.

Night to Remember is short (35 minutes in length), familiar content presented in a new way, simple, slow, dialogue free and heartwarming. It boasts 10 songs from the early 1950s, revealing what a night out in 1953 would have been like.

All DVDs come with a free cd of all 10 songs featured on the DVD and an idea guide of how to incorporate this into your senior friends life. This is a great gift for your parents or grandparents and also an excellent resource for anyone overseeing the care of a senior citizen. Buy it today for senior homes, senior day care, hospitals, and retirement communities. It is sure to be a hit!