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Creative Life
00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9ab20000Our series Creative Life discontinued on October 30th, 2017. It has been replaced by Ways of Life. The Creative Life archive lives on this page. Creative Life offered an audio tour of arts, culture, and inspiration on the Cape and Islands. Our region is rich with creative diversity, and so are the stories we tell.Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison.Creative Life is made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.

Music Memory is Longlasting for Many with Alzheimer's

Photo by Cape Cod Times.

Brianna LePage always wanted to study two things:  music and medicine.  It may seem that these two fields oppose each other and yet she has combined them for nearly twenty years. 

Brianna works as a Music Therapist on the Cape where her work with the growing Alzheimer’s and Dementia population assumes a little known but much needed role in the care of a relentless disease. 

Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison and made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.  This story came to us from our production partners at Atlantic Public Media through their media training program, The Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole. For more infomation on that program go to transom.org