"How old are you?" "How old am I?" "Yeah." "I'm 90 years old." "What was life like when" "You were a little girl?" "Oh, god." "I've forgotten so much." "I can't..." "I've forgotten so much." "I'm very sorry." "No, it's okay." "What have you forgotten?" "I've forgotten what I used to" "Do after I became a young lady." "I've forgotten so much." "I can't remember." "I've been here..." "I've been here..." "I've been" "Here 90 years." "And if I could remember," "I would tell you, but I don't." "I can't remember." "I want" "To try an experiment." "What?" "I want you to try and let the" "Music take you back" "Into your memories." "To travel back into time... and then we'll stop," "And you can tell me" "Where it took you." "You ready?" "Mm-Hmm." "♪ O when the saints" "Go marching in ♪" "♪ when the saints" "Go marching in ♪ ♪" "That's Louis Armstrong." "♪ Yes, I want to be" "In that number ♪" "♪ when the saints... ♪" "Wow... ♪ now when the saints ♪" "♪ go marching by ♪ ♪" "He's singing "when the saints" "Go marching by," and it" "Takes me back" "To my school days." "♪ I would like" "To hit the number ♪ ♪" "Mama told us not to go listen" "To him, and" "We would sneak off at night," "And bring back pictures" "Of the dancers... and I worked in Kingstown for" "Nine years in the "E" building" "In Kingstown... my birthday November 20th... that was in the wartime..." "I was working in ft." "Jackson... and my son," "On February the 4th, was 69." "I didn't know I could talk so" "Much!" "This is Dan Cohen." "Six years ago, he volunteered" "At a nursing home, and" "What he experienced there" "Changed his life." "Dan asked me to film him" "For one day." "Adjusting the camera." "Go get the... he wanted to show" "People what he was seeing... what was happening when he gave" "Elders with dementia" "Music that they had loved." "Music connects people" "With who they have been, who" "They are, and their lives." "'Cause what happens when" "You get old is all the things" "You're familiar with, and your" "Identity are all just being" "Peeled away... what unfolded that" "First day moved me so much," "I ended up following" "Dan for three years." "Did you work with" "Elderly people before?" "Well, I'm" "A social worker, and so I have" "Worked with elderly people" "When I was..." "Actually for my internship, but" "It really wasn't..." "Most of my life was" "Spent in the computer industry." "And this is sort of, for me," "Putting two things" "I love together." "We really want to learn what" "Music someone's going to really" "Recognize and enjoy." "One of the residents" "Is a resident who likes" "Gospel music." "Church was all his life, and" "I think that" "We could start with him." "Henry, speak to me!" "I want to hear your voice." "Can you talk to me?" "Let me hear you." "Tell me your full name." "Henry has" "Dementia and he needs" "Total assistance with all his" "Activities of daily living." "Hi, papa." "Hi, papa." "Huh?" "How you doing?" "I'm all right, I'm fine." "Who am I?" "Huh?" "Who am I?" "I'm your daughter." "Daughter?" "Mm-Hmm." "Which one?" "Wait a minute..." "I don't know..." "I got so many, I don't know." "God knows." "You've got so many?" "Maybe grand-Daughters... well, that's what I mean..." "I don't know." "Okay, it's Cherie." "How long has he been in" "The nursing home?" "Approximately 10 years." "It affects me greatly, because" "He was always, you know," "Fun-Loving, singing, you know?" "On every occasion, he would come" "Out with a song." "I remember as a child he used to" "Walk us down the street," "Me and my brother, and he'd" "Stop and do" ""Singin' in the rain."" "He would have us jumping and" "Swinging around poles." "He was good, he was always" "Into music, you know?" "He always loved singing," "Dancing." "You want your music" "Now?" "Let's try your music, okay?" "And then you tell me if it's too" "Loud or not, okay?" "Music is inseparable" "From emotion." "So it's not just" "A physiological stimulus." "If it works at all, it" "Will call the whole person..." "The many different parts of" "Their brain, and the memories" "And emotions which go with it." "♪ He is my lord ♪" "I'm supposed to sing with" "This?" "You can if you like." "♪ I'm so in love" "With you... ♪" "♪ ooh ♪" "When I first met him, he was" "Very isolated, and he" "Used to always sit on the unit" "With his head like this... he didn't really talk" "To much people, and then when" "I introduced the music to him," "This is his reaction ever since." "♪ Ooh ♪" "♪ I'm so in love with you ♪" "♪ ooh ♪ ♪" "Henry waking up did" "Something to all of us..." "Everyone in the room felt it." "♪ So in love with my god ♪" "♪ so in love with you, god ♪" "♪ I'm so in love with you, god ♪" "♪ ooh ♪" "♪ wherever it be ♪ ♪" "The philosopher Kant once" "Called music" ""The quickening art,"" "And Henry is being quickened," "He is being brought to life." "Yeah?" "I'm going to take the music" "For one second, okay, just to" "Ask you a few" "Questions, okay?" "How awake was he?" "I'm gonna give it" "Back to you." "Was he still lost" "In his dementia?" "Or had the music" "In some way changed that?" "Henry?" "Yeah?" "Do you like the iPod?" "Do you like the music you're" "Hearing?" "Yes." "Tell me about your music." "I don't..." "I don't..." "I don't have one, I mean." "Do you like music?" "Yeah, I'm" "Crazy about music." "Used to play beautiful music," "Beautiful sounds." "Did you play music when you" "Were..." "Did you like music" "When you were young?" "Yes." "Yes." "I went to big dances and things." "What was your favorite music" "When you were young?" "Well, I guess... well, cab Calloway was" "My number one band guy I liked." "Good?" "Yeah." "What was your favorite song?" "Oh." "♪ I'll be home" "For Christmas ♪" "♪ you can plan" "On me ♪" "♪ with plenty of snow ♪" "Mistletoe," "Presents wrapped 'round" "The tree ♪" "♪ ow ♪" "♪ Christmas eve will tell me" "Where the love light beams ♪ ♪" "Henry?" "Yeah?" "What was the favorite part of" "Your life?" "What was your favorite part" "Of your life?" "My life?" "Well, part of my life" "Was riding a bicycle," "Grocery boy... what did you like about" "Riding a bicycle?" "That's where I made my money." "So, in some sense," "Henry has re-Acquired his" "Identity for a while through the" "Power of music." "What does music" "Do to you?" "It gives me the feeling of" "Love, romance." "Figure right now, the world" "Needs to come into music," "Singing." "You got beautiful music here," "Beautiful, oh, lovely." "And I feel a band of love," "Of dreams." "The lord came to me, made me" "Holy." "I'm a holy man, so he gave" "Me these sounds." "Let's say I meet you... let me see... ♪ Rosalie, won't you love me ♪" "♪ Rosalie wont you be sweet" "And kind ♪ ♪" "What do you" "Think happened with Henry?" "I mean, what did we just see" "Happening with Henry?" "We connected with Henry." "We connected with Henry's self." "You know, when you're in" "A nursing home or when you" "Have Alzheimer's disease, you're" "Really struggling with your own" "Thoughts and confusion..." "Dan was excited." "I was excited." "What if all these people we'd" "Seen could be awakened like" "Henry?" "All a sudden," "Everything falls into" "Place and you're right" "There with the music, you" "Understand it." "It's pleasurable." "You're not thinking about" "Anything else, you're not" "Struggling." "Oh, how lovely!" "This is no small problem." "There are five million people" "In America with dementia." "10 million people spend a large" "Part of their life caring for" "Them." "There are maybe a million" "People in nursing homes" "Losing their" "Connection to life." "Let me give you a kiss." "C'mon, sweetheart!" "Mmm." "Dad!" "Hello." "Hello!" "Johnny?" "Hey, Johnny!" "How are you?" "I mean, isn't this desire..." "A desire to awaken another" "Person, to what they are," "To what they could be..." "A deep part of being human?" "How often does anybody have" "A chance to affect the lives of" "A million or more people?" "I'm hoping people are ready to" "Come along on this journey... here you go.." "You hold this." "There you go." "We all know music is magic." "I feel like I'm" "One with the world." "And for those with dementia," "It can be a back door into" "The mind." "The parts of the brain" "Which are involved in" "Remembering music and" "Responding to music are" "Not affected too much in" "Alzheimer's disease or other" "Dementias... part of the reason why" "Musical memories are" "So strong has" "Something to do with the way" "Music enters our brain in the" "First place." "Music has more ability to" "Activate more parts of" "The brain than any" "Other stimulus." "Music seems to be a cultural" "Invention which makes use of" "Parts of the brain developed for" "Other purposes." "Not only auditory parts," "But visual parts," "Emotional parts," "And at the lower level," "In the cerebellum..." "All the" "Basic parts for coordination." "When we are young, music" "Records itself in our motions" "And emotions." "Luckily, these are the last" "Parts of the brain" "Touched by Alzheimer's." "Great song." "Yep." "Can we hold hands a little bit?" "Ah, that's better." "We're too far from each other." "For the patients with" "Alzheimer's, it has to be" "Music which has meaning for them" "And is correlated" "With memory and feeling." "♪ Hold you so much ♪ ♪" "And by exciting or awakening" "Those pathways, we have" "A gateway to stimulate and reach" "Somebody who otherwise is" "Unreachable." "Yeah, it's not an" "Easy life for you." "I love you." "I love you, too." "I have one resident" "That barely opened her eyes, she" "Didn't respond." "As much as I tried..." "I knew" "Her for two years..." "No matter what I tried, massage" "Wouldn't work," "Nothing worked." "But when we got introduced to" "The iPods and the family" "Told me the things that she" "Liked, it was amazing once we" "Put the iPod on her." "She started shaking her feet," "She started moving her head." "Her son was just amazed... okay, can we stop?" "'Cause now I'm... getting..." "I'm seeing her all over again." "What we're spending on drugs" "That mostly don't work dwarfs" "What it would take to deliver" "Personal music to every" "Nursing home resident in" "America." "That's to pause it, to" "Start it up again," "And hit the button again." "Couldn't be easier." "Yes." "So why don't these people" "Have their music already?" "And why does it take" "An outsider like Dan to" "Get it for them?" "♪ Ooh ♪ ♪" "In today's really crazy" "System, I can sit down" "And write out a script" "For a $1,000 a month" "Antidepressant, no problem," "Nobody asks any questions." "♪ Ooh ♪ ♪" "If I want to provide a person" "With a $40 personal music" "System, that will take a lot of" "Work," "Because personal music doesn't" "Count as a medical intervention." "You see what I'm saying?" "It's sort of a side thing over" "Here." "The real business, trust me," "Is in the pill bottle." "Open for me." "Our healthcare system" "Imagines the human being to be" "A very complicated machine," "And we've figured out" "How to turn the dials." "Blood pressure?" "Oh, turn that down, you know?" "Blood sugar?" "Oh, turn that down." "We have medicines that can" "Adjust the dials." "We haven't done anything," "Medically speaking, to touch the" "Heart and soul of a patient." "Gil?" "Yes?" "They want you upstairs." "You have to come take your meds." "Mmm." "No, you refused this morning," "So they want you to" "Come now and take them." "No." "Listen, you know it's" "Important, okay?" "Look how you're acting," "Okay, you need your medication." "Well, Gil is a little different." "As you can see, he's a big guy," "He's a strong guy." "When he gets agitated," "We really need things in place" "That are going to work and" "Work quickly." "My anger manifests itself in" "Very many different ways." "The anger is there, but" "Sometimes I can't express it." "I like to think of" "Distress as communication." "If you give a highly sedating" "Medication to that kind of" "A person, you're actually" "Taking away the one avenue they" "Have to tell you they" "Have a problem." "And the problem with that is you" "Can turn a person who is engaged" "Into a person who" "Is withdrawn into themselves" "And no longer able to connect to" "The world around them." "I wish I had my freedom." "That's the most important part." "That is what makes me the most" "Pissed off of all." "That I can't go out." "The thing people lose most" "Is those intangibles..." "The idea" "Of choice and control." "We're going to do your" "Medicine now, all right?" "Just every aspect of" ""What am I going to do next?"" "Is dictated to you in" "Most institutional environments." "Drink some of that." "And music creates" "Spontaneity that you cannot" "Create in an institution." "It takes you to a place where" "You can leave the regimen" "And go off in a world" "That you create and that you" "Connect with on your own terms." "Hi, Gil." "Hi." "I brought you your music" "That you requested." "And put it on your" "Ears, over your head." "That fit okay?" "Yeah." "Okay." "And here's your iPod." "All you have to do is click the" "Center button, one time." "♪ The magic of your sighs ♪ ♪" "I think you're all set." "♪ Would you still love... ♪" "♪ tomo... ♪ ♪" "♪ tonight with words" "Unspoken ♪" "♪ you said that I'm" "The only one ♪ ♪" "There is no pill that" "Does that." "And medicine can dim the" "Spark or the light, it never" "Brings it out." "What they need is engagement," "They need to succeed in" "The world around them." "So, you want an iPod, too?" "First, what is an iPod?" "I don't know anything about" "Electronics!" "He has his favorite music," "And it's playing." "That's all it is." "It's like your own jukebox." "Okay, let's start." "She wants to see what it" "Looks like, the iPod." "Small." "No kidding." "Denise is" "A bipolar schizophrenic." "She's been with us for about" "Two years." "I like..." "Denise doesn't hold back any" "Emotion." "Her joy is off the charts." "Unfortunately, so is her" "Sorrow and her anger." "So, she's very raw, she's very" "Real." "Do you know" "What I'd like to do?" "Denise is probably" "An extreme resident that" "We have here." "I'm being emphatic," "And I have a very vivid" "Imagination." "I'm very resilient but I drop," "And I keep on trying," "And I drop, but I never" "Stop, and I drop." "One of these days," "I'm going to drop and" "Stay on the floor!" "Careful." "I won't fall!" "I've lived here two years" "And never fallen!" "I couldn't believe the music" "Let Denise" "Push away her walker." "She'd been using that walker" "Every day for two years." "It's Spanish." "You're not Spanish." "No, I'm not Spanish." "I'm following your lead." "I'm having fun." "Good, me, too." "A little music bringing this" "Much joy." "It only makes sense when you" "Understand their isolation." "What happens when" "They come to a nursing home?" "What are their losses?" "I never thought I would be in" "A situation like this." "They lose their" "Independence." "It's sad to say but sometimes" "They lose their dignity." "That's it." "Sometimes they are" "Dealing with the loss" "Of a loved one." "Imagine losing that all in one" "Day." "I wanna get home." "Yeah, you do?" "I've been here for the last" "Two or three days." "Right." "What do you want to do at home?" "Be with my family." "Where we going?" "Right down here." "People who have been here for" "Years, that have dementia," "They'll still tell you," ""This is not where I live."" "Well, I can" "Go out this way, too." "Tom has been in this" "Nursing home for" "Five years now." "So, they're always" "Trying to escape." "I have to go that way." "They're looking for the" "Exits." "That's one of the most" "Frequently asked questions is," ""How do I get out of here?"" "Ah, no." "Can't get out here either," "Right?" "Because this isn't their" "Normal world when they come" "Here." "Now they're in this world, and" "They're like, "this isn't the" "World that I know."" "It's stuck." "With few choices," "Little hope for the future," "No control over the" "Medications flowing through" "Them, is it any surprise their" "Minds struggle to adapt?" "People close their" "Eyes and withdraw inward" "More and more." "If the outside world is" "Horrible, I go to" "The inside to restore my" "Balance." "But, after a while, people just" "Become living dead people." "They go into vegetation, and" "This does not have to be." "No." "I play..." "I play music." "I know." "You're a trumpet player, right?" "Yeah, and I play in a band." "What I've found is" "That we all have music in us and" "When we go through" "What we go through, like trauma," "Caused by disease, caused by" "Wars, that gets covered up." "And I've found a way of" "Accessing that with some people." "So, it's really to help them" "Find that song that they've" "Covered up from the pain so they" "Can sing again." "Samite is a volunteer who" "Understood how music can bring" "Back souls that have fled" "The body... souls that have been" "Traumatized." "I've had a situation where" "I was actually overwhelmed." "I was in the Congo." "These people were told that" "This guy is" "Coming to bring music..." "The healing power of music..." "Which was a little overwhelming" "Because these were about 150 women who had just gone" "Through rape... who had just gone through the" "Worst abuses you could" "Have imagined." "I think I was inspired actually," "Because I picked up the flute" "And I played a really sad" "Melody, and the melody came from" "The pain that I knew these" "Women had been subjected to." "And when I finished the flute" "I could see tears running" "Down some of the women's faces." "And the next place I knew that" "I had to take them was to" "Sing a happy song." "So, I kicked into..." "And soon they started moving" "A little bit," "And soon they were clapping." "And I'm telling you, three hours" "Later we're still singing." "And now we're all connected." "We're all just one body." "Everybody just singing." "When I go to nursing homes, they" "Remember these amazing stories," "But it's always through music" "That they're able" "To express themselves," "And that reminds those people," "We will have a chance to be" "Happy again." "Music had always been" "A big part of my life." "When I was younger, I played the" "Trumpet, I played the organ," "I played the piano... when I went off to college in" "The early '70s, I had the" "Requisite giant album collection" "Which I carried through" "To my marriage." "When I ended up here, I lost all" "Of my music... my world became this facility." "This is" "Solitary confinement." "And every human being" "Needs stimulation from the" "Outside, from little" "Babies to old people." "That's why music is so" "Important." "If you find the music that the" "People know, there's stimulation" "And communication," "And people do not withdraw" "Inward." "Like many people in this" "Institution, Steve found" "Himself alone." "After eight years of" "Being here, I finally had the" "Opportunity to get my music." "Okay, how's that?" "Good?" "And all of a sudden... vistas which I thought were" "Closed to me opened up." "Have you ever had music just" "Hit you in a place that" "Immediately brought you to tears" "And you don't" "Understand why, you know?" "Music has that power." "I can remember being" "Five years old," "Hearing this music in the" "Distance, crawling to it." "It was "rhapsody on a theme" "Of Paganini."" "You know, crawling to the music," "Laying on the floor, and crying." "Music touches us all." "How deep does it run" "Inside of us?" "Watch." "♪ Ba, Ba... ♪" "♪ Ba, Ba... ♪" "Okay." "When does our relationship" "With music begin?" "At 22 days, a single cell jolts" "To life." "This first beat" "Awakens nearby cells and," "Incredibly, they all begin to" "Beat in perfect unison." "These beating cells divide" "And become your heart." "And this desire to beat in" "Unison seemingly fuels our" "Entire lives." "♪ Ah, Bo, Bo, Ba... ♪" "♪ Ba, da, da, da, da... ♪" "Amazingly, after six months" "Of development, the" "Cerebral cortex is" "Capable of supporting thought." "Yeah, oh, the ladybugs" "Are super-Cute." "Researchers have studied the" "Sounds of newborns and" "Discovered that in their cries" "Are patterns that reflect their" "Mothers' speech." "I know, and you want" "To bring it." "This means that even before" "We're born, we are learning" "How to sing" "With another human being." "♪ Ba, Ba, Ba... ♪" "I wondered how" "Everyone knows that." "Regardless of what country I'm" "In, it seems like" "Everyone knows that." "Now, how is that possible if it" "Wasn't already inside you?" "Every child will tend" "To keep time to music, heard" "Or imagined, which you will not" "See in a chimpanzee." "That's it!" "I got it!" "Music seems to be" "Almost as quintessentially human" "As language." "This response to a beat may be" "Hard-Wired and human... and I think" "Almost all human beings" "Will bring out their inherent" "Musicality... 277." "You have a little bit of room" "To grow." "I've got a lot of room to" "Grow, considering it will" "Hold 2,000 songs." "Do you have "piano man"?" "It's thrilling to me" "To be able to see a person" "Who's been without music for" "Years and then watch how" "That person comes alive." "I mean, that's..." "As a physician, that's a thrill." "But there's something behind" "That wonderful moment." "I mean, how did that happen in" "The first place?" "Why were we able to" "Feed and water and medicate this" "Person but not respond to" "Deeply human" "Needs that he might have?" "A century ago, they" "Were called "nursing homes"" "Because you received" "Nursing care, and most of the" "Time it was" "In a home-Like setting." "That was before, I guess, our" "Civilization advanced to the" "Point where we created 15,000 nursing homes based" "On a hospital model." "How did this become the way" "Millions of Americans end their" "Life?" "The civilization of the" "Past 100 years with its" "Startling industrial changes" "Has tended more and more to" "Make life insecure... technology has radically" "Transformed the" "Human environment." "Our safety, no longer tied" "To the home, or the village," "Became tied to something else." "We became urban and the" "Traditional family structures" "Began to feel pressure" "And weaken." "As a consequence, by" "The late 1800s, elders, in" "Alarming numbers," "Were ending their days in the" "Poorhouse, alongside the" "Insane and the homeless." "This social security measure" "Gives at least some protection" "To 30 millions of our citizens" "Who will reap" "Direct benefits through" "Old-Age pensions..." "There was a real" "Awareness that older people" "In America were sick and poor," "And a decision was made to" "Support them, not through the" "Welfare system, but through the" "Healthcare system." "And so, what we had was this" "Incredible shotgun marriage of" "The poorhouse and the hospital" "And that's what" "Nursing homes became." "A new industry was born." "This business exploded after" "The Medicaid act of 1965." "The idea of taking" "Care of elders on a mass scale" "Was something new" "In human history, and it was" "Bound to run into problems." "Early on, there were accusations" "Of "warehousing" elders," "Overusing physical restraints," "And even when reformers" "Challenged that practice and" "Reduced it, a new problem came" "Up..." "The overuse of" "Anti-Psychotic drugs." "These drugs aren't designed" "For use with elders, and yet" "They're being massively" "Overused in nursing homes." "Give me a kiss right here." "Kiss me." "Thank you." "American" "Nursing homes actually have" "Some of the best people in our" "Nation, some of the biggest" "Hearts, most generous spirit," "The greatest joy and laughter." "I love these people." "However, they go to work" "Every day inside an institution" "That defines people in terms of" "Their diagnoses and" "Their disabilities" "And thinks of them as patients" "First, human beings second." "He doesn't really" "Initiate conversation." "He just kind of... exists." "Does he already have music in" "His room?" "Does he have a radio?" "I don't think he has a radio" "In his room, no." "He has dementia?" "Mm-Hmm." "He has dementia." "Johnny, can you tell" "Us, who's this guy?" "Who's that guy?" "Is that you, when you were in" "The navy?" "Is that me?" "Do I look like that?" "Yeah, that's you." "That's not too bad!" "A couple of years and" "A lot of Tommy Dorsey, big band?" "All of this stuff, let me sort" "It out." "Frank Sinatra..." "How about this one?" "We tried to learn john's" "Story." "Who's that guy?" "Is that the same guy?" "To help us find his deepest" "Music." "I got more muscles." "But how do you do this for" "Someone like john?" "All right, what about this?" "We were told a few things." "He played baseball." "Oh!" "He'd been drafted and served" "At Los Alamos." "It was there that the army" "Gave him shots for" "Radiation poisoning..." "Shots that caused all his hair" "To fall out." "Lastly, after the war, he" "Performed in Philadelphia under" "The stage name Larry Stewart," "But we couldn't learn this from" "John." "The sensory record..." "The movie that played only in" "John's mind, called memory..." "Is gone." "His love, his dreams... gone." "Who are we without our memory?" "♪ Oh Johnny, oh Johnny ♪" "It's "oh Johnny oh."" "How perfect!" "♪ Oh Johnny, oh Johnny ♪" "♪ how you can love ♪" "♪ oh Johnny, oh Johnny ♪" "♪ heavens above ♪" "♪ you make my sad heart jump" "With joy ♪" "♪ and when you're near I just" "Can't sit still a minute ♪" "♪ I'm so ♪" "♪ oh Johnny, oh Johnny ♪" "♪ please tell me, dear ♪" "♪ what makes me love you so ♪" "♪ you're not handsome," "It's true ♪" "♪ but when I look at you," "I just, oh, Johnny ♪" "♪ oh Johnny, oh ♪" "♪ da-Da-Da-Da-Da ♪ ♪" "There was no way we could" "Have known there was this much" "Life inside of john." "♪ Some enchanted evening," "You may see someone ♪" "♪ you may see a stranger ♪ ♪" "I wish I had a voice like" "Him." "For Johnny, getting his" "Music, and a little focused" "Attention... you're quite the singer." "Was all it took to awaken" "Feelings he hadn't felt in" "Years." "I love to do it." "When did you first" "Sing?" "When you were young, did you" "Sing?" "I don't know." "I'm just a small guy." "Yeah?" "I'm crying." "Why?" "Are you sad?" "I don't know." "I love everybody around here." "My gang..." "This is my gang." "This is your gang?" "Yeah?" "Does it make you happy to sing" "For us?" "Yeah." "Half the people in" "Nursing homes get no visitors," "So it's not like" "Family can do it." "The nursing homes don't really" "Have a ready budget for this." "The government does not" "Reimburse for music, and iPods," "So it really needs to come from" "Somewhere." "So my ultimate goal is to make" "This a standard of care" "In all 16,000 nursing homes in" "The country." "That's the goal." "It depends on the" "Nursing home." "It depends on how proactive the" "Volunteer department is." "Is this something you'd" "Want to explore for your own" "Facilities?" "Well, I have" "Several concerns." "That you give it to 2 people" "And 10 people are going" "To want it and I'm not going to" "Be able to give it to them." "Frankly, how" "It's administered." "This is a very" "Big place." "We have 600 residents here." "Cost is also a significant" "Factor that we have to consider" "In every program." "So tell me, how can" "I help you today?" "I'm looking for a donation." "Sir, one second here." "The research shows it," "Our experience shows it..." "There is no doubt that" "Mainstreaming the use of" "Personalized music," "Using iPods..." "I spoke to the senior vice" "President and they..." "They have" "A no corporate philanthropy" "Policy." "There are 16,000 nursing homes" "In the united states, and the" "Challenge is getting it out" "There, and we could really use" "Your help." "Sandra day O'Connor" "Talked to him about your project?" "No, about Alzheimer's," "Support of the Alzheimer's" "Association." "Support for Alzheimer's." "She talked to" "The man himself." "Yeah." "And he said no?" "Yeah." "So, what luck am I going" "To have?" "How's the work going?" "It's a struggle." "It's a struggle." "I have to tell you," "I am one of the few people who" "Actually knows how" "You feel about this." "Because a couple of decades ago," "I got really charged up by this" "Idea that we could bring" "Plants and animals and children" "Into the lives of elders." "I had the same kind of" "Experiences that you've" "Described, where I could" "See people come alive." "We had this dream that we'd" "Just go door to door, but we" "Couldn't penetrate, sort of, the" "Fog of the nursing home." "What you're doing is outside of" "Conventional practice and you" "Have to..." "And if you're" "Going to be successful going" "Forward, you have to understand" "How big a barrier that is." "Ladies and gentlemen," "Please find your seats." "We went looking for" "Answers." "It turns out we are not alone." "There are lots of people who" "Believe there's something" "Fundamentally wrong with the" "American nursing home." "I think we are part" "Of a movement that is much," "Much, bigger." "I want to work on culture" "Change." "I want to support culture" "Change as a national priority." "Hi, bonnie." "Hi, Dan." "What's up?" "How are you?" "We value independence and" "Have the hardest time," "I believe, of any country with" "The concept of dependence." "And so, whereas other folks have" "Integrated aging, we had" "A unique interest in saying," ""Over there..." "I don't want to" "See it, I don't want" "To know about it."" "Why are we changing" "Now?" "Why are we changing now?" "Because it's not working." "Because it's dehumanizing." "And I think, quite frankly," "I think baby boomers are saying," ""This is not acceptable." "This is not how I want to be" "Treated when I get older."" "This was inspiring," "But are" "We really interested in" "Changing the way America ages?" "Might not realize it" "But the united states of America" "Has only 6,000 geriatricians in" "A nation of 300 million people." "Even worse, that number is not" "Going up, it's going down." "This is unfortunate timing," "Because the challenges we're" "Going to have to face are" "Growing." "We're facing an epidemic" "Of neurologic diseases on" "A global scale." "A cheery thought." "On this map, every country" "That's colored blue has more" "Than 20% of its population" "Over the age of 65." "This is the world we live in." "And this is the world your" "Children will live in." "For 12,000 years, the" "Distribution of ages in the" "Human population has" "Looked like a pyramid with the" "Oldest on top." "It's already flattening out." "By 2050, it's going to" "Be a column and will start to" "Invert... and this is why that's" "Not entirely a good" "Thing, because over the age of 65, your risk of getting" "Alzheimer's or" "Parkinson's disease will" "Increase exponentially." "There are five million" "Alzheimer's patients in" "The united states." "In the next 10 years, that" "Number will come close" "To doubling." "We do not have the facilities," "We do not have the resources," "Financial or otherwise," "To cope with that number" "Of people" "Suffering from dementia." "We have to find a way to help" "Them age in place in a healthy" "Manner." "What do you call that?" "It's a..." "Fork..." "Sp..." "Knife?" "No?" "Fork?" "Or spoon?" "She says we just don't" "Understand." "I think that's probably true." "You end up being dependent on" "Someone else for everything that" "You do." "You can no longer write" "Your name, you struggle reading," "You lose small motor control." "You can't even remember how to" "Get in and out of your" "Apartment, or the elevator." "So, do you remember where is" "The elevator, maybe it's here?" "It could be, yes." "Okay." "Let's press." "Do we go down or up?" "We have to go down." "Okay, so, do you want to" "Press for me?" "Oh, yes, here." "This one?" "I'm not sure." "That's up." "So that's down?" "This is down, yes." "Okay." "Oh, did I do that badly?" "I don't think so." "Do you see the light?" "Yeah." "Whoo!" "Oh, look, look, look." "Oh, beautiful." "Look at that." "Isn't that lovely?" "Oh, gotcha." "I gotcha, I gotcha." "Didn't I, huh?" "For Marylou, loving her" "Grandson is easy." "This is going to the, what?" "Where are you going to go?" "It's just everything else" "That is hard." "I'm really bad, see." "Let's see." "But surprisingly, even deep" "Inside Alzheimer's," "Her capacity for love and" "Affection remains strong." "I have lots of people to talk" "To me and do all that kind of" "Thing, so I..." "Yeah." "Are you sad because" "Other people don't have that?" "Yes." "Of course, because how could" "I do things if I didn't have" "People with me?" "So, that's... this is a hard journey for" "You, huh?" "Yeah." "Well, my husband... he's wonderful." "Would you like to" "Hear some music?" "Would you like to listen" "To some music." "Sure." "Why not?" "What do you have, Dan?" "Here you go." "I don't know how to do this." "Straight over" "Your ears and your head... perfect." "See the little" "Button in the middle?" "Press that?" "Yeah, right in the middle." "Click it once." "There you go." "♪ Round round get around" "I get around, yeah ♪" "♪ get around round round" "I get around ♪" "♪ I get around get around round" "Round I get around ♪" "♪ from town to town ♪" "♪ get around round round" "I get around ♪" "♪ I'm a real cool head... ♪" "Whoo-Hoo!" "Whoo!" "Whoa!" "Oh!" "♪ I gotta find a new place" "Where the kids are hip ♪" "I could go." "Get out there." "Go with me." "I'm sorry." "Does it matter?" "No, no." "There's nothing... out of control." "♪ I get around round" "Get around round" "Round round ♪" "Come on, guys." "♪ Wah wa ooo ♪" "♪ wah wa ooo ♪" "♪ we always take my car 'cause" "It's never been beat ♪" "♪ and we've never missed yet ♪ ♪" "I need more." "Do you want to stop the" "Music?" "Oh, thank you so much." "Okay." "It was..." "I'm so glad to get it." "Thank you." "And I love it, and you were very" "Nice to me and... okay, so they're tears of" "Joy?" "Yeah." "Okay" "Just wanted to make sure." "That's the best thing I've" "Ever, ever had." "This thing, this..." "I don't know how to say it." "It's just... it can't get away from me if I'm" "In this place." "I thought you were" "Going to grow wings." "I was trying." "We wanted to believe that" "Music would help Marylou stay" "With her family longer." "We didn't know if it" "Could do this, until we" "Met Norman and Nell." "Nell and I have been" "Able to avoid long term care for" "A number of years by" "Trying to keep her" "Constantly stimulated." "Music has" "Been an enormous part of it." "Then you'll play the piano for" "Us?" "Yes, but I just want to be" "With you lot." "Okay." "Do you mind?" "Absolutely not." "I'd love that." "Norman has cared for Nell at" "Home for 10 years" "Without drugs." "Without personalized music," "Nell would be in" "An institution." "I have spent 38 years now" "Working on Alzheimer's disease" "And I haven't done anything for" "Patients that's as effective" "As the music therapy is." "I wish I had, and I'm" "Still trying." "But I really haven't seen" "Anything as positive as that." "Marylou and Nell have" "Family." "Imagine having to navigate this" "On your own, far from" "Your home." "Denise got a message to us that" "She wanted us to come back..." "That she had something she" "Wanted to tell us." "And we came..." "Dan, how are you?" "Because we know" "No one else visits her." "It's a letter from the" "Hospital describing her" "Condition." ""Meta-Stasis..."" "That means that it has" "Spread." "Yes." "So, because of that, I think" "It's very serious." "It is very serious." "You know, life goes on." "It goes on!" "Whether you die or not," "It goes on." "And I can not accept that" "I don't leave something in" "This world for somebody." "I cannot accept that!" "Do you understand what" "I am saying?" "It's painful to feel that" "What you have to give" "Is not needed." "That there's no one there to" "Receive your gifts... in our past, in all our" "Stories, in other cultures," "Elderhood had something to" "Give, and there was" "Always someone there who needed" "What elders had to give." "Is this true in our new world?" "Does elderhood have a place?" "We're taught from" "A very early age that adulthood" "Is the pinnacle of existence." "And that older people are really" "Just broken-Down versions of" "Their former incredible" "Selves... we've built a culture that" "Prizes individuals who are" "Able to emulate" "The success of machines," "That can be machine-Like" "In how they live." "This is not good news for aging," "I have to say, because aging is" "Not a machine-Like endeavor." "And it's the fact that they are" "Moving into a different way of" "Living that causes America" "To put them away," "To hide them away." "What I have" "Learned over a career" "Of working with older people is" "That American culture is wrong." "There is actually life beyond" "Adulthood." "There is actually the" "Opportunity to live and grow," "And become elders." "Every Indian people, all for" "All." "One people, very happy." "Very happy." "Ah, yes, you are happy." "We are made to age," "And the aging that we experience" "Actually holds in it very" "Important learnings and" "Lessons... there is a touch that takes" "A lifetime to achieve." "Locking this touch away is like" "Stripping from ourselves part" "Of being human." "These people that we" "See in this nursing home, their" "Spirits are dumped on because" "We're locking them away." "But when you bring the music," "That spirit is what we see" "That comes out." "That spirit is still" "Fresh and young." "My pain is very painful." "Oh, sorry." "But you know what?" "What?" "I can take a lot of pain." "You look like a very strong" "Person." "I am a very strong person." "♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na... ♪" "♪ mmm ♪" "Very soothing." "Isn't it?" "♪ Mmm ♪" "♪ yeah, yeah ♪ ♪" "You need to have that person in" "Front of you who you're going" "To be sharing with." "Keep playing." "It's not something" "You can just switch on." "You have to" "Completely open yourself up." "You give yourself." "And once you give yourself, then" "It opens up dialogue." "Take this off, please." "Now, when you go back to Uganda," "They'll ask you who gave" "You that." "What are you going to say?" ""The strongest woman I have" "Ever met."" "I love you." "I love you, too." "Dan was breaking through... he received a grant to give" "Matching funds to 35 nursing homes... and this time the nursing homes" "Were lining up." "Gosh, how many different" "States is this going to be?" "That's just amazing." "Here we have 50 headphones" "And this represents 50 changed" "Lives." "It's great!" "Lot of music." "After three years of" "Filming, Dan had music" "In 56 homes." "We knew this was just a drop in" "The bucket." "Just changing" "Something in a nursing home" "Somewhere doesn't take you" "Far enough." "Our real focus of concern needs" "To be the 1.6 million people who" "Are living in nursing homes and" "How to make the lives of" "Everyone better." "I thought this was just" "Going to be... pshew!" "Just like that." "People would just take the idea" "And run with it." "They didn't." "I left Dan knowing he would" "Never stop." "I hoped maybe he'd reach the" "Right person and they would" "Help him and this dream of his" "Would come true." "We first see Henry" "Unresponsive and almost" "Unalive." "I've got your music." "Then he is given his" "Favorite music." "Oh." "And immediately" "He lights up." "His face assumes expression," "His eyes open wide." "And he's being animated" "By the music." "This is his reaction" "Ever since." "Do you like music?" "Yeah, I'm" "Crazy about music." "Used to play beautiful music," "Beautiful sounds." "What does music do to you?" "Love, romance." "Figure right now, the world" "Needs to come into music... and I feel a band of love," "Of dreams." "You know that little" "Video that I made for Dan," "Right?" "Um, I think some kid posted it" "And it's insane!" "♪ Ooh ♪ ♪" "And I am getting" "Swamped." "I'm behind by 85 emails." "85 people contacted me and" "If I had 300 people," "I mean, it's just, you know... you've just got to scroll down" "And just read what these" "People are saying." "You've never heard anybody" "Write anything like this." "It's crazy." "My grandmother is very much" "Like Henry... we've been trying nearly" "Everything to get her more alert" "And happy." "My grandfather died" "Three days ago." "Music has so much power." "Her eyes lit up instantly and" "The smile on her face made" "My day." "I haven't cried yet, but this" "Has made me start tearing up." "Maybe if this worked for" "Henry, it could work for" "My grandmother." "When the music ended," "My mother looked up... she got so emotional... and she saw me... and so caught up" "In the music... and I'll hold that memory" "Forever." "The music carried her away." "I have to do this." "I'm going home to see my mother" "With Alzheimer's." "She is, at this moment," "Listening to ray Charles" "Sing, "come rain or come shine,"" "And she has found her place in" "The world again." "You got music back in your" "Life, mama!" "Were you surprised" "That that clip went viral?" "I mean, millions and millions of" "People have seen it." "Completely surprised!" "People just..." "They watched" "And they saw a human being come" "Alive, and when any of us come" "Alive, it touches us deeply." "That's why we want to involve" "The community, both in" "Getting iPods donated and" "Having the students come into" "The nursing homes to work" "With the residents," "Find their playlist..." "We've been afraid to" "Enter these places." "Afraid of aging," "Afraid of having nothing to" "Give." "But music," "Entering one 94-Year-Old man," "Reminded us..." "We do have something to give." "Oh, my friends." "All we have to do is ask," ""What's your favorite song?"" "Vinny, what's your" "Favorite song?" "What's your favorite song?" "What was your favorite song?" "Remember this?" "♪ Blackbirds singing... ♪" "Yeah, that's a lovely one." "Beautiful." "Well, I have to have" "That one." "That's myself." "Look how fast her mind is" "Responding to her songs." "♪ When the night" "Has come... ♪" "That's... big!" "♪ And the land is dark ♪ ♪" "In music, Marylou feels" "Like she's perfect again..." "Like she's flowing through" "Life." "And so it is for all of us... music gives us something we" "Hunger deeply for," "Something we've pursued for" "Thousands of years," "Rewired our very brains for." "We need music..." "It awakens in us our most" "Profound safety... the safety of living in concert" "With each other, and our" "Own selves." "And what happens to you" "When you hear it?" "I feel good." "It's like I got a girl," "And I want to stay with her." "And that is why, together," "We're going to do this" "One small kindness..." "We're going to bring life" "Into the places where it's been" "Forgotten." "And together... whoa!" "We will listen." "♪ I'm a man on fire" "Walking through your street ♪" "♪ with one guitar" "And two dancing feet ♪" "♪ only one desire" "That's left in me ♪" "♪ I want the whole damn world" "To come dance with me ♪" "♪ oh ♪" "♪ come dance with me ♪" "♪ I'm a hunter at bay ♪" "♪ come and set you free ♪" "♪ over heartache and shame ♪" "♪ I wanna see our bodies" "Burning... ♪" "You have a beautiful voice." "♪ Like old big sun ♪" "♪ I wanna know what we've been" "Learning and learning from ♪" "♪ everybody want safety ♪" "♪ safety love ♪" "♪ everybody want comfort ♪" "♪ comfort love ♪" "♪ everybody want certain ♪" "♪ certain love ♪" "♪ everybody but me ♪" "♪ I'm a man on fire" "Walking through your street ♪" "♪ with one guitar" "And two dancing feet ♪" "♪ only one desire" "That's left in me ♪" "♪ I want the whole damn world" "To come dance with me ♪" "♪ da-Da-Da-Da... ♪" "♪ ooh ♪" "♪ ooh, yeah ♪" "♪ come dance with me ♪" "♪ over heartache and rage" "Come set us free ♪" "♪ over panic and strange ♪" "♪ I wanna see our bodies burning" "Like old big sun ♪" "♪ I wanna know what we've been" "Learning and learning from ♪" "♪ ooh, ooh, ooh ♪" "♪ everybody want romance ♪" "♪ romance love ♪" "♪ everybody want safety ♪" "♪ safety love ♪" "♪ everybody want comfort ♪" "♪ comfort love ♪" "♪ everybody but me ♪" "♪ I'm a man on fire" "Walking down your street ♪" "♪ with one guitar" "And two dancing feet ♪" "♪ only one desire" "That's still in me ♪" "♪ I want the whole damn world" "To come dance with me ♪" "♪ yeah ♪" "♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪" "♪ ooh ♪ ♪" "♪ oh, darling, no ♪" "Henry, thank you very much!" "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes," "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes." "Oh, thank you!" "Thank you."