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Singing from the same song sheet.

When the Forth Valley Nurses’ Choir sang Christmas songs to older patients last year, they didn’t anticipate the impact they would have. The audience – including people with dementia and their families – started to join in, and there were definitely tears. ‘We were all a bit upset, but in a nice way,’ explains choir member Lynne Paterson. ‘One family member said his relative, who had dementia, hadn’t been able to speak to him in two years, yet now she was singing along and remembered every word.’ This Christmas, the choir, made up of nurses working across NHS Forth Valley in central Scotland, will be hoping for a similar effect when they sing at local community hospitals in Falkirk and Stirling, and at charity events and concerts.