I lived in a care home for three and a half years after my major stroke, during which time I encountered several people with dementia..... They appreciated my sining Folk songs (unaccompanied) and a lady used to visit to sing to...and sometimes with them. A few of them had really bad memorys' but they could all sing aong with popular songs that they all remembered. They all loved just listening to music but sometimes falling asleep whilst doing so.