Our Dementia Choir
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- Episode
- Episode 1
- Broadcast Info
- 2019 (58 mins)
- Description
- In episode one, Vicky starts the search for choir members, meeting people with different types of dementia and at different stages. One of the first to join is former woodwork teacher Chris whose frontotemperal dementia is leading to increasingly disinhibited behaviour. The youngest member is 31 year old Dan who was diagnosed with a rare form of genetic Alzheimer’s 2 years ago. Dan’s father died at 36, though at the time no one realised why. There’s a risk that Dan’s young twins will have inherited the faulty gene and Dan seizes the opportunity to take part in a cutting-edge experiment hoping it will help find a cure in the future.
- Genre
- Music; Health & Social Care; Mental Health
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Our Dementia Choir". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/233097 (Accessed 09 Jan 2025)