General Chat

It won't be long until the oldies in the home will want their fav Punk rock music played :-D

:-D :-D :-D

The only stuff I have difficulty with is head-banging stuff and rap. Rap is just not music but rather poetry or talking fifty to the dozen.

I am going to hold my daughter to the promise she made about 20 years ago: I'd never put you into a home!!! Ha ha, she's probably forgotten all about it and she wasn't married then.

My son kept his mouth firmly shut.

I visit a couple of friends in a home and the residents love the pop music of today.


Most of them say they are fed up of the Golden Oldies;

And most of them are in the late 70's and 80's even have a couple of 90 year olds but they still like the pop music.

Now thats my era

So Frank Sinatra. Dean Martin, dear old Doris !!

Anita Franklin,Ella Fitzgerald .Pat Boone

Then Marty Wilde . Bill Haley . Shirley Bassey

Wasn't that keen on Cliff but some still are

I know the words to the old WW2 favourites as I was a kid then but they really aren't in my top ten


;-)

I think those of us in our mid-70s and up may well know/recognise those wartime songs and singers, because that is what our parents liked during our childhood days in the 40s and early 50s ........... I know my parents hummed and sang wartime favourites that long after the war, and Vera Lynn was a great favourite with them. When they turned on the radio to listen to her show, I also had to listen!

So it may be wrong to say that those would not calm people mid-70s and up, because it might well take them back to childhood.

That doesn't mean to say that the songs of the 50s/60s/70s should not take preference!!!!!

Talking about Vera Lynne, several years ago she was performing in, I think, Hyde Park. It was an anniversary of the end of WW11, so 1995, or perhaps 2005, anyway, we took my aged mother. We struggled up on the train, carrying a folding chair and found a place to set up. Mother settled comfortably, on comes Vera, and Mother says, in her loudest voice, "I never could stand this woman".

:-D :-D :-D :-D

When my mum was in a home and she was still able to, it was any excuse to have a sing a long and dance. She was a teenager in the 40's married in the 50's, towards the end she constantly sang either white cliffs of dover or Doris Days Its a lovely day today Mum's version sounded nothing like Doris's, it was played at her funneral and the Vicar warned it sounded nothing like Mums version.

Many the evening I would be climbing the stairs to visit mum and hear a cheering sing a long of "on ward christian soliders" lead robustly by my Mother. :-D

Just out of curiosity...

Has anyone watched the Dementia Choir on BBC.

Absolutely briliant programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/our-dementia-choir

This is just right for golden oldies

Sue, it was a lovely programme, altho sad. I loved the way it brought the sufferers out of themselves.

I am trying to get o.h. to write me a list of his favourite songs, as apparently a playlist can help people with dementia. O.h. is well on the way to some kind of dementia, undiagnosed as yet because he won't stop drinking.

Lizx

We visited another home today. Rather than music the residents were listening to a talk, at least some of them were, on the history of buttons! It was bringing back memories for those awake . :-)

Button tins are very evocative, bringing back many memories.

Lizx

I loved playing with my Mum's button, all those colours
shapes and sizes, I spent ages playing with them :-)

Can't imagine children getting the same pleasure if handed
a tin of buttons to play with today :-D

More than likely put them straight into their mouths..

Against Health and safety regs

I'm not looking forward to growing older. :-(

There is only one alternative Dermot.

'Reverse' - you mean? :-D

My maths may not be quite on the button without the help of my old Abacus but in round figures we seem to spend the first half of our lives trying to be older and the second half trying to pretend we’re not as old as we really are.

I’m referring here mainly to ‘boys & men’ because ladies, young or old, have their own age calculation formulas. No calculator needed by them!