Poetry breaks through fog of Alzheimer's sufferers
Retirement homes and hospitals across the UK are turning to poetry to provide some respite from the symptoms of dementia, such as the loss of memory, communication and basic skills.
(AFP) The teenager's voice breaks the silence that hangs over the dozing, grey-haired figures. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you," she recites, "you'll be a man, my son", finishes one of the pensioners, with a burst of recognition.
Alzheimer's has stolen most of Margaret's memories, but she can still remember the line from Rudyard Kipling's famous poem that she learnt years ago, a rare moment of clarity in the fog of the cruel disease.
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