By Katie V. Jones – The Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE — On a recent December afternoon, five teenagers from Mt. Hebron High School combined to rehearse and record Christmas songs. Check-in wasn’t just for fun. Sanika Devare, 16, arranged for it to be shared on social media, hoping to provide a source of musical treatment for dementia patients.
This began as an assignment of independent studies when Devare, in the momentary grade at Mt. Hebron, in Elliott City, Maryland, became a way to win her Gold Award, the highest honor of the Female Scout. release the Ukulele Holiday Carols Medley video on December 21, 26 and 28 via Facebook Live.
Renee Johnson, communications director for the Alzheimer’s Association, said Devare contacted the organization and introduced herself to provide a video of the performance.
Music has been an important component in Devare’s life, he said. Devare, now a junior at Mount Hebron, has been playing horn since fourth year, but only learned to play the ukulele when his friend Sydney Scanlon, 16, taught him how to play. Last year, the two formed the school’s ukulele club and met with friends to practice the tool on the user and online.
The concept of creating a video for the Alzheimer’s Association was born from Devare’s paintings in a school study assignment on dementia.
“I’ve been interested in medicine and I’ve studied dementia in school,” Devare said. “I took the same course of study [this school year] and have become more interested in music therapy. “
Melissa Kiehl, a talented and talented/advanced research teacher at Mt. Hebron, said in an email that Devare chose the topic of threat points and strategies to prevent Alzheimer’s disease as a study assignment last school year and continued her paintings on the subject this year. year comparing treatment with music for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
“In addition to the concert, she has also evolved the curtains to a percentage with attendees about the positive effects of music for those patients, the data she has learned in her studies so far,” Kiehl said.
While music has been shown to affect other people’s mood, Devare has learned that other people with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in particular can gain advantages in a number of ways.
“Those who are in the later stages [of Alzheimer’s disease/dementia] should sing the lyrics even if they don’t communicate,” said Meegen White, program manager for the Alzheimer’s Association. “Music awakens this component of the brain in an individual and gives them the opportunity to bond with their current situation. “
Devare, a Girl Scout since the fourth year, presented her Memory via Music assignment as a proposal to win her Gold Award. According to the Girl Scout organization, “By pursuing the Gold Medal, Girl Scouts are turning the world by addressing the issues they are passionate about driving lasting replacement in their communities and beyond, while acquiring must-have skills that will prepare them for all facets of life. “Projects will need to provide ‘unique answers with long-term relief’ to the community, and as a last step before winning the award, Girl Scouts will have to do a percentage of what they have learned, as well as the effect the task has had on others.
“Awareness is an important component of my project,” Devare said. “I want to express what I’ve done and how the community has fared. “
To do this, he created and sold T-shirts to raise funds to print brochures about dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The flyers will come with a QR code that links to the christmas concert live streaming occasions.
All of the musicians at the concert are members of the ukulele club, but Devare’s arrangement required Rulan Mo, 17, to play guitar, Sydney Scanlon to play the ukulele and Hrithika Samanapelly, 16, and Eliza O’Connor, 16, to sing. Devare rang bells and acted as director of the songs, which included “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” “Jingle Bells” and “The First Noel. “
“I love this concept and I am satisfied with Sanika with her project,” scanlon said. “We, the people. “
By Katie V. Jones
The Baltimore Sun
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