George Downey
11/4/2014 08:21:29 am
I loved this movie so much. It perfectly captures the hopelessness of the elderly once the world economized and left them behind. The fact that they have such a loss of freedom, and their reaction to that loss of freedom, fascinated and troubled me.
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Piper Tompkins
11/4/2014 10:33:12 am
That is a really great insight how you focused on their eyes when they heard the music, you're making me want to watch it again just to see what you saw in their eyes.
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Adrien De Luna
11/4/2014 08:25:41 am
I thought the movie was really interesting. I found it really cool how the elderly were basically unresponsive, and then they listened to music, and out of nowhere, they were talking nonstop about how much they loved the music. I never knew that music could make someone so happy and emotional at the same time. My Brookdale buddy says that music was never really important to him, but I think that he'll become happy and excited if he listened to his favorite song, which is Stardust. I really liked the movie, and even got a little teary eyed at one point.
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Kaeli Leoni
11/4/2014 12:32:43 pm
I agree. I hope that when we play the music our buddies provided us it has a similar affect on them!
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Shea Saulino
11/4/2014 08:44:02 am
I found this movie to be both insightful and uplifting. The filmmaker struck a balance between the two effortlessly by showcasing the polar opposites of the types of patients that are housed in nursing homes and how effectively this music strategy worked in both. I have a few questions about the process- I am still unclear on when this took place and how much more "R&D" has been completed since then. I am also curious about how the lasting effects of the music trial have affected not only the patients, but their loved ones as well as the people around them.
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Jenna Welsh
11/4/2014 11:54:18 am
That guy would just not accept that he was old! I agree that it is both sad and funny! :)
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Emily Dingman
11/4/2014 08:45:19 am
This movie actually gave me an overwhelming feeling of anxiety and fear. Growing old is not something I enjoy at all, I hate accepting the fact that I am growing up with each year that passes. This movie showed some of the reasons why it terrifies me so much.
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Mikayla Kricfalusi
11/4/2014 11:08:41 am
I completely agree. The idea of ageing terrifies me, especially if all I have to look forward to is a nursing home. I also don't want the old version of me to forget the person that I am now. That would mean I would be effectively dead.
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Jack Campbell
11/4/2014 02:35:15 pm
While watching I felt similarly in the sense of not wanting to age, as americans we all seem to share that fear.
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Kayla Feather
11/4/2014 09:53:25 am
This movie, like the music, evoked such a variety of emotions. At time is was funny, sad and I wanted to cry, and other times it was happy and uplifting. The movie showed a harsh reality and a kinder one as will. It showed how the homes ended up looking like hospitals, and no person should end up somewhere other than their home. Much less a hospital in environment, sanitized, white, sick, and death. NO one should have to be forced into a place they don't want and then be forgotten about. The other extreme was the children care and the older folk was living in a place that looked like a home. However in both extremes they older folks forget themselves, their past, presents, and hopes for future.
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Camila Antonorsi
11/4/2014 10:00:22 am
The film showed that there are other ways of helping the elderly by giving them music and helping revive there spirits. it also showed the struggle of getting t a grant for his type of "treatment". It shocked me that it is easier to get money for pills then for music.
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Piper Tompkins
11/4/2014 10:31:13 am
I felt the same way when ever we saw any of the elderly people dancing or singing, it really struck a chord with me.
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Mikayla Kricfalusi
11/4/2014 11:09:45 am
Seeing them come alive was amazing and made me feel hopeful.
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Isaac Fernandez
11/5/2014 04:45:44 am
I thoughts it's funny how you said the veggie thing, but yeah I found it really awesome how they came a live through the music.
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Piper Tompkins
11/4/2014 10:28:57 am
I thought the movie "Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory" was both inspiring and sad. Through the duration of the film we got to watch as elders with disabilities such as dementia, remember moments from their past that even the sight of their own children couldn't bring back. I think that this was a powerful message that music really is the object that binds us together as humans. Watching the elderly people listen to music and getting up and dancing and singing to it was a mind blowing experience, it filled me with happiness and sorrow.
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Srđa
11/4/2014 10:54:43 am
It is really fascinating how how little things could make someone's day or life.
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Dylan L
11/4/2014 01:35:40 pm
I totally agree, Srdja.
Rena
11/4/2014 10:34:48 am
The documentary alive inside made me happy. The excited and happy faces on the residents of the nursing home was probably one of the most memorable things I saw in it. Another memorable thing I saw was how the unresponsive elderly got really happy and excited and showed signs of happiness and emotion, life. I honestly kept whispering to Abby about how cute they are. It is horrible how the nursing homes are today, and the fact that half the people in there don't get any visitors....ever was really hard for me to think about. I started imagining what would happen to my grandma if she was in a nursing home. She actually stopped smoking today so she can stay at home with us and I realized how much being in a nursing home would affect her, and the fact that she might not even get visitors made me really upset. I then started thinking about my future, and the fact that if I do have kids, I'm going to have to make sure they love me, a lot. I do not want to be in a nursing home. The fact that music brought back so many memories was beautiful. I kinda knew that, from listening to old songs I remember certain times in my life, but to see that actually happen and the people with dementia and alzheimers remember these things with just the help of music was beautiful. Overall, I loved the documentary and felt that music doesn't get enough credit from when it was in the time the people grew up, it was just there, but it wasn't recognized as even half the things it is recognized today.
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Mikayla Kricfalusi
11/4/2014 11:06:28 am
This documentary made nursing homes feel so wrong. These people are turned placed in a less than human state and stuffed away where the general public doesn't have to look at them. All of these brilliant, beautiful people are ending their lives in one of the most depressing places on earth. They don't have any meaning, their lives have become worthless. The accomplishments of the elderly mean nothing, they are forgotten. After a human is no longer independent, they are forced to enter a vegetative state within these retirement communities. It is so depressing, I think I want to cry.
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Jenna Welsh
11/4/2014 11:55:57 am
It makes me sad to think that I too will be unable to do many of the things I love when I grow old. That's why this film, and this project, have inspired me to remember that old people are still people, not just shells of their former selves.
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TJ Accardi
11/4/2014 03:10:46 pm
I agree that the prospect of our ageing is scary, and how 90% of our class will probably suffer from one of those (or both of) those two diseases later in our years. I also have to agree with Jenna above (or below, depending on where this comment is posted) that old people aren't just vegetables, and I believe that is more of a societal problem than a personal one.
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Christian Klosterman
11/4/2014 11:19:36 am
I thought that this movie was really amazing, both in a happy and sad way. The whole part where it was talking about how musical memories is what Alzheimers affects last was incredible to watch, especially when they played the music to people with Alzheimers and they started dancing and humming and whatnot. It is very sad at how people just ignore old people nowadays. It is actually depressing at how neglected they are. It was very depressing seeing that one lady who invited the interviewer to see her results for her sickness, since no one else visited her, and to see that her sickness spread to other parts of her body, it was really heartbreaking. I think giving the elderly all a pair of headphones and an iPod would be a bit expensive and hard to manage, but it would be really cool to see all the people with Dementia and Alzheimers to recall their childhood and re-enact it all through music. This movie was amazing, it was a roller-coaster of emotions from the sad stories of people just turning into vegetables from not having their memories, to those people hearing music and recalling some of their childhood pastimes and whatnot.
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Michele moua
11/4/2014 11:27:21 am
With in the first 5 minutes of the movie I totally understood what this guy was getting at and could relate 100%. When i listen to music today that I had listened to a couple years ago it brings back old emotions and memories; good and bad. I think everyone gets that. Music is one of the most engaging, emotional and interactive mediums that exist. So its to no surprise that these seniors respond to the music on such a influential and positive level. Even if they had been dormant and unresponsive for 5-10 years. But this documentary was so much more; I never questioned what our society is like, after all it seems all to normal to me because I grew up along side with it. But seeing the points made in this movie, I couldn't agree more. Seeing that the elderly are forgotten and sometimes seen as a burden on society. But this movie proves that there is so much more to these individuals that even have dementia and other mental disorders.
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Dylan L
11/4/2014 01:37:43 pm
What is brought back to you the most when you re-hear music? For me, it's more of feelings rather than experiences. I can't usually remember why I felt a certain way, but I re-feel it.
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Jenna Welsh
11/4/2014 11:52:59 am
I loved this movie! I thought it was touching but not preachy. It resonated with me for a couple of reasons. As I've already mentioned before, I have a grandmother in the early stages of dementia. My family and I bemoan her condition constantly, because we think it is just so sad. However, as bad off as my grandmother is, she is much healthier than the patients in the video. She can't identify a microwave, but at least she knows her full name and is responsive. At least she is not bed-ridden. I have also seen firsthand how music has the power to transport someone with memory issues back to their adulthood. I will never forget the day that my grandmother, after stating that she thought the year was 1998, sat down at the piano and played BY MEMORY a five-minute long tune from her childhood. It was so sweet and beautiful and sad all at once that it brought me to tears.
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Mrs. Clark
11/7/2014 11:47:45 am
You should really consider being a writer in your free time. You write beautifully and always manage to create a sense of humor and a sense of voice in your pieces.
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Srđa
11/4/2014 12:06:56 pm
Today we watched movie called "Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory". I really enjoyed it. It is related to our current project so it was really useful to watch it. My backs were hurting me because of uncomfortable way to sit on the floor, but that can not be compared to the things I felt during the movie.
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Kevin Stiemke
11/4/2014 01:22:43 pm
I agree some of the parts in the movie were really sad considering the fact that a lot of the patients couldn't remember their old life style.
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Sarah Lockhart
11/4/2014 12:07:31 pm
I loved this movie so much. I've never had any other film or documentary make me cry so much, which says good things about this movie because I got that invested in it. I never thought about Alzheimers or dementia or elderly treatment much before this video since none of my relatives are in a nursing home. But I have always wanted to be a nurse, and watching this is make me think I might want to be a geriatric specialist or even work in hospice. I want to be able to use music therapy with patients (even if it's just through recommending it to the family and doing it with them, not the doctor).
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Cloe
11/4/2014 12:26:51 pm
I agree, change needs to come, and it needs to come soon. If I could help it, I would never let my grandma or parents live like this.
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Chloe Rice
11/4/2014 12:24:42 pm
I was heavily impacted by the video we watched in class today. Honestly, seeing that man light up when he listened to the music reminded me of myself, waking up from a depression, or a horrible mood to a song that has helped me through troubling times. The power of music has been so prevalent in my own life, my mom owning a music studio, I can connect with the idea that we hold huge chapter of our life in song.
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Lucas LeVieux
11/4/2014 03:04:58 pm
The part about the drugs was pretty sad. It's so weird how the option that is so obviously superior is ignored.
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Kaeli Leoni
11/4/2014 12:29:22 pm
I really enjoyed watching this documentary. It honestly put a lot into perspective for me and shed light on many topics that I had previously never known about. I can honestly say that I teared up more than once throughout this film as well. The power that music had on these people's lives is truly amazing. These previously unresponsive elderly people were brought back to life just by listening to one song that they enjoyed from when they were young.
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Abby Elliott
11/4/2014 02:12:31 pm
I teared up more than once, too!
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The documentary was very eye opening and really brought light upon what an retirement home or old folks home is like. Its very hard for the effected person for having Dementia or Alzheimers and also how hard it is for the family. Just watching the movie thoughts about what its going to be like for my parents and later done the road me. I would never be able to live with myself if my parents had to take pills for symptoms they were never having for illnesses that they didn't have. I want my parents to be able to enjoy music throughout there life and then towards there elderly years.
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Jackson Sjogren
11/4/2014 12:38:09 pm
This movie was very insightful and gave me great ideas for our next interview session with out Brooke dale buddy. I never new that music could affect the brain in such a way. It makes me think when our generation is older will this problem be solved so we can all listen to our own personal music? Also it kinda freaked me out how in the future more and more people will start to live to their 60's to 80's. It's almost like all our medical advancements are going to start to work against us at some point. In our new brooke dale buddy meet I plan to find out what her favorite music growing up was to try and get her to remember more information about her child hood.
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Tristan Elghoroury
11/4/2014 12:43:44 pm
This was an amazing movie because it showed the lives of the average elderly person. They are in the hospital and cannot get out. We saw this in one clip where the elderly man kept trying to get out of the doors. We also heard of many elderly people trying to escape from the facilities from one of the leading doctors at one of these nursing homes. I really think that it is a whole movement that really cut the freedom of the older generations that can't live independently any more. They are stuck and are being kept quiet and 'healthy' by tons of drugs that are almost forced upon them daily. We even went over this in Biology and it all comes together! In Biology we talked about the motives for large pharmaceutical companies to make and test new drugs. It costs so much for the companies to make the drugs so they usually invest in drugs that will be taken by a lot of people for a long time. These are usually pretty general drugs like Advil or Tylenol. A lot of people take these drugs and there is a large profit to be made off of them! The pharmaceutical companies definitely have a large group of consumers for their drugs, the 40.4 million Americans over 65! I really realized from the movie that a lot of the ‘health’ companies are motivated to do what they do for money. The large companies built nursing homes in a hospital fashion because it was easier to maintain and fit more people in the ‘homes'. This is obviously very wrong and it was amazing how the video brought this point up even though it was not the main focus of the movie.
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Hesham Hamed
11/4/2014 12:46:44 pm
The movie "Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory" was truly amazing and inspiring. This movie really gave me an insight on how boring and sad it is in nursing homes. When these residents got the music it made them feel alive again,even residents with dementia were having conversations after they listened to music. When I saw how they reacted to the music I was just amazed. Its astonishing how music can trigger so many different responses in the brain, its like humans are hardwired to start listening to music even in the womb. Most nursing homes are really sad and depressing. Nursing homes really need to change because their residents are just depressed and they are constantly given medications that just make them act like zombies. I believe that music should be in all nursing homes because it brings out the residents actual personality and it makes their lives easier. Overall this movie was amazing and sad at the same time. I hope that all nursing homes get the resources to give their residents the opportunity to listen to music.
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Abby Elliott
11/4/2014 02:15:57 pm
How wonderful that we are talking about music with our buddies?! I am sure we did not realize the power the music has on the elderly.
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Alex de Villiers
11/4/2014 12:58:48 pm
Where do I even start? This documentary was incredible, it shows how music can bring out the personality in a person, no matter how far "gone" they are. It changed my view on music and the elderly completely, First off, music is a lot more powerful thing than most people think, I can even feel the effects of music, like the emotions it brings out in me and the memories that are connected with it. I can remember where and when I first heard any song, it's so strange how music does that isn't it? For some reason music can bring out emotions and memories that have seemingly disappeared. This effect was extremely apparent in the elderly when they were played music from when they were younger, it really brought out the "person" in them and it brought back memories from when they were younger. I think it's incredibly shortsighted not to give the elderly the thing they really need. It's very obvious that the drugs they are given are only there for profit and not for the actual well being of the elderly. The music is more of a medicine to them than the drugs they are given. I really do hope that the idea of giving music to the elderly is spreading. All I really want in this world is to make people truly happy and I hope that I can help make a difference like this with our Brookdale Buddy Project.
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Kevin Stiemke
11/4/2014 01:20:06 pm
I agree I think that the music was better medicine than them than the drugs they were taking too.
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Srđa
11/4/2014 02:15:41 pm
I am so excited too for the future meetings in Brookdale. I hope we are going to play them music like in the movie.
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Jack Campbell
11/4/2014 02:34:17 pm
I felt the same way about the film.
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Kevin Stiemke
11/4/2014 01:17:46 pm
I really enjoyed watching this movie. I thought it was amazing how the man was awoken after ten years. It's amazing how all these people who have some kind of memory lost. It's crazy what miracles music can do for people, and what memories they bring back. They did all these test on the patients, and in the end all they had to do was play music for them. I feel sorry for the patients, because they are taken from their daily life styles, and put in to a nursing home where they are cared for but they lose the freedom to do what they want. I remember that one of the patients was in a band and how he music was his life. Overall I really enjoyed watching the film, and learning about how music can help the elderly.
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Ian
11/4/2014 01:29:18 pm
This video was very cool to watch because it ties into this project to awareness for the elderly. The movie was really fun to watch. To see all those people remember there memories just threw music I found really cool. The nursery homes should look less like a prison and add music to there daily life. This movie was really cool how that one person after 10 years finally started to dance and sing. I really enjoyed that movie and I hope this project ware awareness to people.
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Dylan L
11/4/2014 01:46:05 pm
Gosh, this movie was so moving. Right off of the bat, at the beginning, I agreed with what the helper man (I can't remember his name), believed- that music can re-ignite the spark in almost anything-- love, family, emotions, feelings, and memories. I know that I usually get kind of swamped by a powerful emotion that I felt when I listen to a song that I had heard a long time ago. Like for example, whenever I hear Raise Your Glass (I know, it's weird), by P!nk, I relieve the excitement of reading the Hunger Games for the first time, since that song came on the radio, and I happened to be reading that book when I first heard that song.
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Justin
11/4/2014 02:05:02 pm
This video was very inspirational due to the fact that music truly does take a major part in ones life. It was just so interesting how one of the residents was completely silent for 10 years. Then when it came down to listening a music track off an ipod, he was able to recall events that occurred during his youth. That whole scene with him listening to the track on the ipod was really astonishing. This whole video totally changed my perspective for the majority of the Nursery homes in the United States. Its crazy how they use most of the money to invest in drugs that totally segregate their connection with life and other human interactions.
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Abby Elliott
11/4/2014 02:07:08 pm
Thank you Mrs. Clark for sharing with us this eye-opening Sundance film entitled "Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory”. I believe the makers of this film have hit on something HUGE! Our elderly need to be brought back alive. Once they are placed in a retirement home, they not only lose their own homes, but their lives, too. How exciting it is to think that something as simple as music can be so powerful?! We live in a pill pushing society focused on making money for doctors and pharmaceutical companies. Also, our society tends to look for the easy fix. How interesting that the makers of this film have found a relatively simple and inexpensive “fix” that creates life altering change which brings human spirit back to those who have lost it?! Headphones and iPods are inexpensive compared to monthly drug bills. So the big question is “Who is going to fight the fight to stop doctors and pharmaceutical companies in their endeavors to make and push pills?”
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Morgan King
11/4/2014 02:17:20 pm
This documentary opened up a whole new world of elderly care. I was amazed as to what people have to go through, because my belief is that when you get older you adaptability decreases. It was so hard for me to watch what was happening to these elderly people, I almost felt like it was invading the thoughts that they still had left. Overall, I think that it was amazing how it took only one person from the outside to be able to resurrect these people. I especially enjoyed Denise, she was so full of raw emotions and I could see that she was still fighting for her independence. But to see her refuse the walker, and start dancing when she was listening to the music is something I will never forget. I find it horrifying to see how these people are refused the stimulations they need to thrive, and how sedated they are kept. I think that it is time we stop listening to the medical professionals and start listening to what it is these people want most, because even if they lose their memory they are still people. Overall, all of the old people that I saw in the film reminded me of different types of children that refuse to grow up, in a way they refuse to grow up to be "disabled." I think that this is something everyone needs to learn and understand.
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Jack Campbell
11/4/2014 02:33:32 pm
I found this documentary to be very interesting and shocking. I had learned and heard a lot about the effects of music on people and neural development, but I was not aware of its effects on the elderly for different mental conditions. In tenth grade I learned a lot about the way that the brain works in conjunction to music and its reactions to music and specific types. As well I learned about how music therapy can help people with PTSD. The documentary expanded on what I kew and really showed the power of music. When people suddenly opened up or became lively it showed how important music is to people especially as we age. As I watched the video, i kept thinking about how I will perceive music and how it will make me feel when I age. I Keep thinking about the types of music I like, which is scattered and diverse. I like classical but also "normal" music and I wonder what I will associate with my early years in the future. Overall I found the film to be very interesting and insightful to the way music affects people.
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Alexis Miranda
11/4/2014 02:41:20 pm
This film was really eye-opening and heart warming for me. I learned that music is filled with many wonders that can make elderly people feel less depressed and more joyfull. My favorite part of the film was when they visited an old resident that was silent for many years. But once he was listening to the music, his eyes were wide open and he started to dance. I had no idea that music was capable of having a huge impact in their lives. This film really changed my perspective about the elder and it made me realise how important it is to have music as a tool to bring back cherishable moments of our lives.
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Lucas LeVieux
11/4/2014 02:57:05 pm
To be honest, I was kinda frustrated with the whole idea of the treatment of elders. Sure, the music thing was delightful, and god bless the guy who was doing it. It made them very happy, but happiness is fleeting. We need to change their condition.
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TJ Accardi
11/4/2014 03:07:07 pm
The story was honestly very heartwarming and interesting. When you go to popular media sites and find news relating to Alzheimers and dementia they basically make it out to be something just as bad as cancer. I'm not saying it's an awful thing but think about the fact that even with these awful things you can (even for just a moment) remember and enjoy your memories from your childhood again. What I found even more amazing was the science behind it, it has long been established that physical things that have strong ties to memory often can bring back memories a lot better. Things like smell and sound are the 2 biggest ones and even now the therapy that involves those two are extremely limited. In fact even today music is becoming widespread in therapy, it lets the body meditate and really have clarity, thus why people listen to music while exercising, people with ADHD use musical therapy, and why music is able to increase the productivity in people.
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Emily Hayashida
11/4/2014 03:11:03 pm
The documentary was very eye opening yet emotional at the same time. I was moved when I saw how the elderly with memory loss responded to their favorite old music. I was also alarmed at how they responded to the use of technology, and how it didn't seem like they were scared to break anything which I have realized why normally many older people move away from technology. Honestly I was sort of skeptical about how music could help people remember important things from their lives, but when I saw their reactions my option completely changed. It seems crazy how before some of the patients had musical therapy they were just drugged and laid/sat around in their vegetative states.
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Ryan Cormack
11/4/2014 03:36:36 pm
Music is a really important part of my life personally, so I was really moved by this documentary. I thought it was powerful the way they talked about connecting with the elderly instead of treating them like patients, because a lot of them will shut down without outside stimulations. Although the current state of nursing homes isn't where it should be and we have probably one of the worst practices in place for taking care of the elderly, doing things like this is taking a step forward to changing it. As in inspiring the community even if its a small step as a time. I was really moved by this movie and cried several times, and I really hope we can find a really strong way to incorporate this into our project.
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Grant
11/4/2014 03:58:41 pm
After I watched the documentary today my whole perspective changed on the elderly and retirement homes. I now have a better understanding of the problems involved with ageing. This was shown in the documentary when it showed how they were basically trapped with no way to express themselves. It also made the people who were are being put through this everyday a reason to give up and sit around in a vegetable state.
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Chenoa Levy
11/4/2014 04:18:34 pm
The movie was really informative on the effects of music and memories. I never realized how important music can be in ones lives, and how it would be able to revive memories. I thought the story itself was very heartwarming. Especially when the patients who were unresponsive, or weren't reacting well to the medication were introduced to music and came alive. I also thin the movie really captured the wrong done in a lot of the nursing homes around the country. Often times the elderly are just fumed off at these places and they don't even know whats going on. The movie called for the need of better treatment to the elders in nursing homes. It offered music as an alternative solution rather than shoving pills down these peoples throats. It's also sad how the world or at least America views the elderly. Rather than viewing them as someone to look up to they are seen as a waste of resources and space. I think that kind of mind-set needs to be changed.
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Eddie Herrera
11/4/2014 11:40:35 pm
This movie was impact-full and made you think what the future hold for you, well at least it did for me. After watching the film I was starstruck because many people praise the idea of living to 80 or even 100. But then after watching this film I realized that they lived a miserable life, no offense to any seniors. They were lifeless people, like the film said, they are just existing. But when they were introduce to music, something occurred, their existence was revived, and they were alive. In all honesty I thought this project was going to be another project were we aim to make a change but we don't. After being introduced to this film, it is clear that we can make a change and a difference in one's life. Overall this film was a real eye opener to what is often forgotten.
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Eamonn McGuiness
11/5/2014 12:16:25 am
Yesterday in class I watched a documentary on how people with alzheimers would listen to a certain song and it would bring back certain memories or emotions. This really was interesting because I wondered what if I would be like that if I live to be like that. It was sad because it is pretty much a vegitated state and they cannot do anything for themselves. It also impacted me because I had a family member die of the same disease and when ever I would visit them before they died they would not remember me. This would be a much cheaper solution and giving them all those drugs and would be safer too. Just to see how the African American guy went from not being able to do anything by himself to starting to sing and dance. He also started to remember things. To see him to do all of that I think is remarkable.
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Hunter Birk
11/5/2014 12:26:41 am
The documentary that we watched last night astonished me on the drastic effects that such a simple device has. It's also incredible that the government doesn't recognize the positive effects music has. Instead of filling elders with drugs and routines simply plugging in an iPod could help so much more. In some cases it even kept elders out of the nursing home. With such a small fix, it's hard to see why change isn't being done. With only .19 percent of nursing homes using music as care there needs to be a drastic change. They need to be flourished with music that awakens them and allows them to live a normal life. I feel strongly that a change needed to be made and better care needs to be taken, it greatly changed my perspective. Being at brookdale really gave me an image of what I though nursing home around the country looked like but now I see that the majority are shaped in the images of hospitals which really saddens me.
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Jordan Farrah
11/5/2014 04:26:16 am
I originally wrote this out on paper but didn't realize it was to be posted on clarks corner until now.
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Isaac Fernandez
11/5/2014 04:52:25 am
Didn't realize this had to be on Clark's corner.
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Chandler Gaines
11/5/2014 04:53:02 am
This movie was really enlightening to me. I was really kind of anxious to watch because I have plenty of grandparents and great grandparents in my family who are still in the homes they were living in. I had never previously gotten to view an experience from the inside of an extended home as such we saw in the film. It was very cool to watch that. But other than that, it was very interesting to watch how music made a temporary cure to the young men and ladies dinmensia and alzhiemers. It was a very beautiful thing what the music did to them, waking them and seeing how above they felt. It was as if they were bieng brought back to their childhood snd it truly seemed like they got younger for a short while the music played. They became so cognitive and lively when the music was qeued and even could answer things with spot in answers afterwards. I was wondering how many of the questions they could have answered without the music compares to after the music. And how much more in depth the answer were.
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Eli Murguia
11/5/2014 11:54:58 am
This was such a teary-eyed, well put together documentary! I really loved how they would go on to show the reality of these Nursing homes and the state of these elderly people.
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Allison Hopkins
11/5/2014 11:09:38 pm
When we first started watching this movie I realized that I had watched it before causing me to think that I wouldn't learn anything from it but as we got further into the movie I realized that that wasn't the case, that I had only seen parts of the movie before. Probably the first time this movie really got me thinking was when it introduced the women who was completely unresponsive and in bed but once she heard the music she started tapping her feet and moving her head. This scene made me recall when I visited my great grandfather last year during a rough patch which was a few months before his death. It really reminded me of this because when we were there he really was just lying in bed sleeping and wasn't really able to speak or do anything but my grandpa (his son) brought in some music on his laptop and played it for my great grandfather. He responded my tapping his toes and other small physical responses.
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Nicole Matteson
11/6/2014 02:42:40 pm
Well despite being bedridden for almost a full week, watching this documentary brightened my sickened days! Throughout the documentary, i was awestruck and inspired. I knew music was amazing and had power, but i didn't know it had so much strength that it could bring back long forgotten memories! My grandpa has parkinson's and dementia, and seeing this film gave me hope that maybe doing something like this with him would help him and make him smile.
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