Every month I play piano and lead songs for a lively group of 40 senior adults who attend a daytime program at SAGE Eldercare, a nonprofit home healthcare agency in Summit, New Jersey. For the better part of an hour, these 74- to 101- year-olds listen to piano works by Chopin and Brahms and whole-heartedly sing...
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