“The Importance of Music for Mental Well-Being in Dementia and Alzheimer’s: Insights from Neuropsychologist Erik Scherder and a Concert to Remember”

Duration 11:01
Published on May 10, 2023

Music is important for mental well-being in many different ways, especially for people with dementia, emphasizes neuropsychologist Erik Scherder. Saskia Wieberdink talks about how music helped her mother, resistance fighter Gisela Söhnlein, during the war and at the end of her life. The Ukrainian piano talent Pavlo Slipko (12) closes with a performance.

Erik Scherder is also involved in it Concert to remember, for the benefit of scientific research into Alzheimer’s. The concert will take place in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw on Monday, May 15, 2023. The presentation is in the hands of Scherder and Astrid Joosten.