Movie Monday: Alive Inside

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Monday, January 19th, 2015
6:30 PM

A truly hopeful film about Alzheimer's and aging is something unexpected. This hugely affecting documentary won the Audience Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and it's easy to see why. It's a portrait of a man on a mission, Dan Cohen, founder of the non-profit Music & Memory, as he fights bureaucrats and austerity budgets with the palpable evidence of how very simply the gift of an iPod can restore vitality and spiritual well-being to patients suffering from dementia and depression.

Learn more at http://www.aliveinside.us

Special guest Michelle Porter, an RN from Kiwanis Pavilion, Victoria's Certified Music & Memory Facility, will give us a local update. She and colleagues are using the process and seeing positive outcomes that prove its usefulness here.

Participate in the Alzheimers Walk For Memories Sunday Jan 25.


About Movie Monday:
Monday nights at the Eric Martin Pavilion theatre - near Fort and Foul Bay. Come celebrate nearly-free (by donation and cheap snacks), popular, mental health and social cause movies hosted by The Movie Monday Society.