A piece of cake is halfway to his mouth when Herbert Wollschläger’s eyes light up. He puts down the fork and motions for someone to ease him out of his chair and on to the dancefloor.
“That’s a foxtrot,” he says, raising a finger in recognition of the music that has just started up. “That’s my sort of dance.” The 78-year-old retired electrical engineer who has a form of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, takes his cue from a carer and suddenly his laboured shuffle has disappeared and they are gliding across the floor.
At the Dance Cafe Wilhelmine in Berlin about 20 elderly people have been brought together to escape for a few hours the dementia that shapes their lives.
“Music is like a silver bullet for those with dementia,” says Christa Matter, psychologist and manager of Berlin’s Alzheimer’s Society, which hosts the dances every month. “People with dementia are constantly being told they can’t do this, they’re doing that wrong, but when they’re dancing they can suddenly move with much more confidence, they know the steps, the music triggers something in them. They might not
A piece of cake is halfway to his mouth when Herbert Wollschläger’s eyes light up. He puts down the fork and motions for someone to ease him out of his chair and on to the dancefloor.
“That’s a foxtrot,” he says, raising a finger in recognition of the music that has just started up. “That’s my sort of dance.” The 78-year-old retired electrical engineer who has a form of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, takes his cue from a carer and suddenly his laboured shuffle has disappeared and they are gliding across the floor.
At the Dance Cafe Wilhelmine in Berlin about 20 elderly people have been brought together to escape for a few hours the dementia that shapes their lives.
“Music is like a silver bullet for those with dementia,” says Christa Matter, psychologist and manager of Berlin’s Alzheimer’s Society, which hosts the dances every month. “People with dementia are constantly being told they can’t do this, they’re doing that wrong, but when they’re dancing they can suddenly move with much more confidence, they know the steps, the music triggers something in them. They might not
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