We are still collecting iPods for the Forest Hills Center patients. The pink (shoe box) collection box is at Graves Music. If your students/families will be there for Piano Guild or any other event, you can email the following information to them.

As a gesture to the Forest Hills Center (75 long term Alzheimer patients), we are collecting iPods for them. They currently have 6 iPods. Could you help in this cause by donating any used iPod, iPod shuffle, nano, or mp3 players you no longer want or need? Even the 1st generation is ok! Just drop them off in the marked box at:

Graves Piano & Organ Co.
5798 Karl Road • Columbus, OH 43229
614-579-6555

The stirring documentary “Alive Inside” (see link below) follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he demonstrates music’s ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Patients use iPods and enthusiastically listen to their favorite music from an earlier time in their lives.

Visit this YouTube site for a short overview of the impact music is making on residents across the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7-owbPzKzE

http://www.aliveinside.us – Audience Award 2014 Sundance Film Festival

Miriam Brown
Out & About Chairman