ABSTRACT
Learning journeys of people with Alzheimer’s Disease who participated in an intergenerational choir are explored. Based on the findings of a qualitative study involving persons with dementia, their caregivers, secondary school students, and a music teacher, we examine elements of wellbeing, communication, recollection, expression, and learning. Applying Wiersma’s (2014) model of mapping the dementia journey, we map the learning journeys of persons with dementia who, in many cases, sang their way back to their loved ones. Singers with dementia showed short-term and sustained evidence of reconnection, recollection, learning, and retention during and outside the rehearsal setting.
