Marjorie P. Lee Senior Living Blog

Mid-winter days in Cincinnati are typically cold, flat and grey— the perfect time, one might think, to stay in the house, hunker down and watch a lot of TV. But there are plenty of cultural happenings and exciting activities for seniors taking place in and around town in this last week of January.

There's that song again. Hear it? Now remember what you were doing when you first heard it? You probably do.

In 1990, the International Federation for Choral Music proclaimed the second Sunday in December (this year, December 14) to be World Choral Day. The event's purpose is to show how "music, the divine art, is more than the mere search of formal perfection and interpretative beauty" and to promote music's ability "to extol the values of solidarity, peace, and understanding."

We've previously discussed on this blog the potential memory-preserving benefit of listening to familiar music for seniors with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia spectrum disorders, and how memory care specialists are increasingly turning to music therapy as a method for promoting the conservation of cognitive function.