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When carers and carees, perhaps with family and friends, would like to burst into song, here is a series of songs written to help uplift spirits.

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The songs are very productive within DIY Dementia Meeting Centres within your local community here.

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When carers attend their support groups and other meetings, the songs are hoped to boost the purpose of the meeting.  Sometimes, the topics of the meeting include hard-to-grasp concepts such as power of attorney or the latest news affecting carers generally.  Even more specific - when members relate their experience when completing forms.

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What better way but to end with a song which treats red tape etc with the ridicule it generally deserves?  Try No. 4 on the links lists.

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There are songs for caree special needs here.

Home page links for after you've read about the songs below.   

  1. Clap your hands
  2. The hot-water bottle song
  3. Carers, carers, (dem) carers
  4. Joshua at the Battle of Red Tape Square
  5. We're the happiest carers in town   here 
  6. We're singing for the brain here    
  7. For organisers and song leaders

There are songs for caree special needs here.


"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence" - Leopold Stokowski

          

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  The songs 

  1. Clap your hands  This well-know tune starts the ball rolling.
  2. The hot-water bottle song  We recruit Fagin and Bill Sikes to help keep four feet warm all night
  3. Carers, carers, (dem) carers  You guessed it!  Sing it soon to see how your knee-bones are connected.
  4. Joshua at the Battle of Red Tape Square   When Joshua fit the battle, he didn't know what he had started!  
  5. We're the happiest carers in town   here   And the nifty-est etc
  6. We're singing for the brain here  Better than singing in the rain.  

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