Favourite songs to help beat dementia

fandango

Headline (loosely) filched from the Daily Express, but I thought we could compile a topical list of songs (favourite or otherwise) hinting at dementia or amnesia etc ...

... such as ...

Remember a Day by Pink Floyd


What say you? Come on, let’s be having your suggestions.

axisus

Forgotten Sons - Marillion
Who are you? - The Who

Neill

Donald, where's yer troosers..?

LesbianWithAGun

It's all relative to the person suffering with dementia...

Find out what songs they liked, and play them - the mind/our space/universe/existence is very personal, and  dealing with something as deep and personal as to the mind and dementia - it can't be pigeon holed into any particular genre, but goes person by person.
Same thing with sights and smells too... What smells are universal so may be a better remedy (Nature: flowers/grass/the sea) etc.. (since Nature's broader, find smells from nature) than looking for songs from the internet to help demntia, why not just ask the person with dementia?
Talk about music and dance or whatever?

Unless this thread is posts meant for people sharing on a case by case basis with stories of songs you've found helpful with dementia?.. IDK.
 

Legionreturns

Remember the time - Wacko Jacko
When you were young - Killers

Joking aside, my great grandma had a stroke and later dementia and lost all speech. She could however, still join in if you sang a song she knew. Different side of the brain for arty stuff apparently. Had to sing Patsy Kline - Crazy with her everyday or she got the hump! She loved that she could still communicate in that way.

LesbianWithAGun

Phil Collins - Do You Remember?

LesbianWithAGun

For all I know I could be 90 with dementia in the future thinking I'm 31 again talking to trees and whatever.

LesbianWithAGun

The day people start asking me what year do I think it is, is when I'm going to start to worry.
(Especially when 1997's not the right answer)..

My internet's fucking fast today though.

richardhomer

Can’t Find My Way Home - Blind Faith

quarky

Legionreturns said:

Remember the time - Wacko Jacko

Damn it, you beat me to it!

Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
Memories - from Cats

Phil_aka_Pip

I can't remember (what I just thought of) - Pete Bardens

mart

I thought of a brilliant song to post here but, I, er, can't remember what it was.

Babones

Where's Me Jumper - Sultans of Ping FC

ICBM

Can't Remember To Forget You - Shakira & Rihanna

axisus

Yngwie Malmsteen - You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget

fob

Alnico

Who are you?

Edit....beaten to it - didn't read the thread properly.
Edit Edit....Brain Damage - Pink Floyd

rpr

12 days of Christmas
  

ICBM

Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again - Ultravox

tone1

I don’t know whether I feel comfortable posting in a Dementia thread as my Gran had Dementia and wasn’t nice to witness....but my nominations

Do it again- Beach Boys or Steely Dan
You Know my name - Chris Cornell

AlexC

Surprised no one’s mentioned the fact that Radiohead have done a whole album about this...

Anyway - Good ol’ Sandie singing There’s Always Something There To Remind Me followed by U2’s Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of.