Yes, yes and yes! Music with the frail elderly must have more than an at-the-time effect, for patients who are largely unresponsive perk up when they see the instrument cases coming in! The toe-tapping, the recollection. Our local paid music therapist says that people remember best what was "on the hit parade" when they were adolescent|twenty-something . Beautiful thread! I feel blessed to be able to volunteer at a care home in the capacity of musician.

Dennis