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♪ Blessed assurance

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- Music is so healing.

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♪ Jesus is mine

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- It feeds my heart,
it feeds my mind.

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♪ Oh what a foretaste

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- It makes me happy.

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It makes me joyful.

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Music has the ability to
take us through the ages.

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It sort of goes
past time and space,

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and when you hear music, it
speaks to experiences, emotions.

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It speaks to memories.
♪ I'm born of the spirit

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♪ And I'm washed in his blood

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- Music, it lifts
myself my soul.

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♪ This is my story

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♪ This is my song

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- The Amazing Grace
Chorus is amazing.

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It is a chorus of elders

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in what we call a
dementia-friendly space.

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- So, we are a full
bouquet of folks,

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some who have loved
or lost people

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who've had Alzheimer's
and dementia,

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some who are currently
living with it now,

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some who just wanna be informed

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and wanting to age
in a healthy way.

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♪ Blood

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- Yes, praise the Lord.

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- We sing gospel music
and it's really great

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because it reflects culture,
African American culture,

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and African American music.

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- Hallelujah, I'm gonna
give you 10 seconds

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to praise him, hallelujah.

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- Within gospel music, you
have ways of saying things,

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ways of singing things.

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There's lots of nuance and
culture and context within it,

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and we don't want
that to melt away.

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- Gospel music feeds my soul,

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and it makes me
feel so much better,

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because you know,

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when you have like maybe
early onsets of dementia,

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it can take you down
into depression,

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but with the gospel
music, it brings you up.

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- The goal really too, I think
of the Amazing Grace Chorus,

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is one, to help with
some of the isolation

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that's experienced by elders.

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There are times
when in community,

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we begin to move them
towards the margins.

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And so, this serves as a
beautiful way to center them

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and reduce isolation that
they experience at this age.

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Also, we oftentimes
have a lot of nicknames

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for the impact of Alzheimer's,

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like a mother is
getting forgetful,

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or, you know, that's
just how uncle is, right?

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But through the
Amazing Grace Chorus,

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we're hoping they can know,

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what are resources we can go

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to when mother is
getting forgetful.

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- Sometimes I feel that

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that I'm forgetting things,

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and this has helped me
because there's exercises

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that we do to help you remember.

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- We center in on a time
period, we play songs,

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and we have the
group think about

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what were things that
they remember happening?

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- It connects to some
deep recess in our brain,

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and it brings out those memories
that are latent in there,

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and part of who we are

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that you don't even realize
that you still know.

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- Please help me
welcome Miss Viola Seals

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and the Amazing Grace
Chorus once again.

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- What's magical about
the Amazing Grace Chorus,

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is the people.

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♪ an on time God, yes He is

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- Miss Viola Seals is
our long-standing gift,

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and it's not a party
of one when she sings.

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♪ Job said, He may not
come when you want him ♪

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♪ Oh but he'll be there

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♪ There right on time

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You'll often hear her
ask for another witness.

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She's gonna make sure
to pull in everybody.

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- And let me see if I can
get some more witnesses here.

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♪ You can ask

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- But some of those
members of the Chorus

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who are experiencing
memory loss,

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it's amazing to see
them and hear them sing.

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So, you will never know those
persons who have their memory,

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those persons who are
suffering from memory loss.

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You won't know the difference

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because it brings something out,

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when they are exposed to music.

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♪ Out of no where

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♪ God step in and cut a
highway just like that ♪

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- The joy of being
seen, heard, valued,

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the joy of laughing, of
singing is still as relevant

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in the twilight
years as it is when

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we're the youngest of
singers and artists too.

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When I think about music and
dementia in the community,

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I think, folks are learning
about how to keep moving.

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It has been a heavy period
of time over the course

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of the past few years.

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And I think, they've learned
resilience from one another.

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I think that they've
learned joy again.

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They have such great wisdom
that they've been generous with

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and have shared with me.

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Sometimes, I think I'm leading,

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but really they're pushing
me along too, right?

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- Being a part of the Chorus,

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it gives me joy,
it gives me hope.

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You know, I don't take
anything for granted.

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I could be in that
situation next week,

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but I am appreciating
and learning from

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so many of the members.

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It gives me hope.

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♪ Oh yes

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♪ He's an on-time God

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♪ Oh yeah

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- It feels so good to be
singing with the choir.

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It kind of helps me stay
focused and gives me strength.

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(congregation applauding)

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- All right, all
right, all right.

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(bright upbeat music)