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After 10 years in a U.S. nursing home, Henry had become depressed, slumped and unresponsive. But after listening to an iPod loaded with all his favourite music, the elderly man sits up, starts singing and jigging about. The remarkable transformation is part of new documentary film Alive Inside that explores the therapeutic effects music can have on elderly patients.

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The video shows Henry before being given the music, slumped in his wheelchair with his head in his hands. Care worker Yvonne Rusell says Henry didn't talk to people very much and couldn't answer simple questions. But after listening to the iPod the elderly man becomes more responsive and alive in the clip.

When asked whether he likes music he says, 'I'm crazy about music'.

He says that Cab Calloway was his 'number one guy' and his favourite song is I'll Be Home for Christmas, recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943.

He even starts singing the lyrics to to the song and jigging about.

When asked what music does to him, Henry replies: 'It gives me the feeling of love, romance.

'I figure right now the world needs to come into music. The Lord came to me and made me holy, I'm a holy man. So he give me these sounds.'

Ref: Daily Mail

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Apr 12, 2012

tsayaya

music is the food of life, kufa o thandayo!
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Apr 12, 2012

SKIZOBANTWANA

hhha hha..iMihlolo
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Apr 12, 2012

rasefatee

no life without music imagine driving a car without a music it is boring
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Apr 12, 2012

dimpho_4U

dzaddy, music makes the world go round.....ba re mmino o "therapeutic" wa utlwa hee..
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Apr 12, 2012

Sweetnez

There was a King in the bible who fell sick and he called for little David to come play the Harp for him and he got healed after listening to soothing sounds from that harp!!! Amazing hey!!! Music is food to the soul, I agree...;-)
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Apr 12, 2012

Shredder

@Sweetnez - A harp, that is Andreas Vollenweider's favourite instrument.
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Apr 12, 2012

dimpho_4U

@Sweetnez...ke nnete..that will be King Saul if i'm not mistaken..imagine the world without music.
@Shredder, ho jwang motswalle?
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Apr 12, 2012

Shredder

@dimpho_4U - Re fano mma lona le kae?
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Apr 12, 2012

dimpho_4U

aowa ,re teng le rona...rea leboga maan, Rre :-)
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Apr 12, 2012

tlebebe

yebo yes## music is therapeutic
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