WANTED: All Players!Do you remember those MP3 players that you used all the time before you got your new phone? Well we want them! The Tri-M Music Honor Society at Twin Valley High School is collecting as many of these MP3 Players as they can to be used as part of the Music and Memory Project.
This project helps patients who are experiencing memory loss due to Dementia and Alzheimer’s regain lost memories by listening to music from earlier periods of their life time. Music has a strong link to memory and is being used in many retirement communities and villages to treat some of their residents, many of whom were unresponsive or had little or no recall of names, places, or events. Twin Valley’s Tri-M Chapter has reached out to the Tel Hai Retirement Community and the Hickory House Nursing Home to try and help get patients these MP3 players. Medical insurance companies will not pay for this type of treatment, which is why the Music and Memory Project was created. The Tri-M students will search for songs that were meaningful in some way to a specific patient and then load them onto the donated MP3 player for them. The devices will then be given to the retirement communities for their use with that patient.
“This is a great way to take a device you no longer need or use and repurpose it to help others. It is also a way for our students to give back to the community”, said the group’s faculty sponsor, Daniel Long.
Please consider donating your unused MP3 players of any type by dropping it off at the Twin Valley High School Office. They will be accepted through the end of April.
