BOURNE, MASS. (WHDH) – A 97-year-old lady from Bourne has battled dementia for years however her daughter says she finds consolation in taking part in music.
Whereas she struggles along with her reminiscence, she nonetheless remembers how you can play the piano.
“When she’s not on the piano, life doesn’t make sense,” Randi Lebar stated of her mom, Elaine Lebar.
“She remembers music,” she stated. “Music comes again, that’s the one constant factor that comes again.”
Elaine Lebar has performed the piano since she was 3 and went on to show, compose, publish, and carry out songs — so it’s solely pure that it turned a daily a part of her each day life on the senior dwelling facility the place she lives.
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, movies of her taking part in went viral on Tik Tok and became a dementia help and consciousness effort.
Her daughter now travels throughout Massachusetts and shares her mom’s story of how the sickness couldn’t take her ardour for enjoying from her.
Randi Lebar is encouraging anybody who has a beloved one who’s battling dementia to seek out one in every of their passions and encourage them to revisit it.
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