‘It brings you back’: the suburban choir helping people living with dementia reconnect

Music is stored in different parts of the brain than other memories, experts say, and potentially for longer. For choristers in the Good Life Chorus, communal singing offers benefits beyond memory

Leigh Scully looks to her husband, and asks: “Have you been enjoying singing, darling?”

“Music. Music. Music. I love it,” Peter Scully says, with a smile and a drumbeat between each word.