CHICAGO (CBS) — Studies have shown that music could greatly impact our mood and health. For a local choir, it serves up healing powers for those coping with early-stage dementia. The Good Memories ...

The performers enter Sundin Music Hall arm in arm, lavender scarves draped around their pressed white shirts. It’s nearly showtime, but the eager singers—a constellation of community members, some ...

Sandy Siegel Miller, clinical psychologist and program director of Good Memories Choir, says emerging research shows that singing, in particular singing in a choir, appears to slow the progression of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Music and the mind. Neuroscientists have linked music, emotion, and memory to one part of the brain. A one-of-a-kind choir in ...

For those battling dementia and Alzheimer’s short term memory is often the first to go. But older memories, sometimes favorite songs, can linger longer. And Family Caregivers of Mercy recruited a ...

Anne and Bruce Hunt didn’t expect to be very good singers. After all, the pair had not been part of a singing group in more than 50 years. But Anne Hunt, 82, a retired writer, had recently been ...

ORANGE – They muddled through the different languages and got but four hours of sleep a night. The six days the Holy Family Cathedral School choir spent in Rome as part of an international Catholic ...

Dorothy Archer, 102, smiled and wiped away tears as members of the New Orleans Threshold Choir moved through a gentle, yet powerful, song. “I will remember this for the rest of my life," Archer said. ...

Mary Lucille Bays celebrated her 102nd birthday in March. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — Mary Lucille Bays, now living in Virginia, may be one of the oldest surviving members of the Parkersburg High ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by Alanah Sarginson The performers enter Sundin Music Hall arm in arm, lavender scarves draped around their pressed ...