"So arts aren’t just a “way of keeping them occupied”, but may become avenues for releasing genuine creativity. It’s easy to assume with people rendered mute by dementia that their understanding and inner life has gone just as silent. “You hear time and time again from carers who use music with patients that suddenly there’s a reconnection,” says Crutch. They often say not that this has transformed the patient but that it confirms that the awareness they always thought was there really is there."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/11/forgetting-but-not-gone-dementia-and-the-arts-research-project-alzheimers
