she is the founder of an organization known as The Fifth Dementia, a non-profit band
in Los Angeles that is inspiring the formation of similar bands all across America,
whose main mission is to improve the lives of people stricken with dementia, Alzheimer’s,
traumatic brain injury and stroke through the healing power of music. It is gaining the attention of medical communities throughout the U.S.

The original Fifth Dementia band, based in Los Angeles, got its name from a famous music vocal group called The Fifth Dimension that scored major hit records globally in the 1960s and 1970s.

Carol Rosenstein, our guest today, formed a California community service called MMM–Music Mends Minds–strongly believing that music changes the brain chemistry of patients. So, with the formation of the band, The 5th Dementia, Carol found a way of helping people.

Today similar bands like The 5th Dementia are springing up all over the U.S. Patients were improving their brain health with music.

Carol is a former chiropractor and clinical nutritionist who holds a master’s degree in psychology. Her husband, Irwin, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and related dementia several years ago. She decided to help her attorney husband improve his health, especially when he began playing a piano–“almost a miracle happened,” she says. He became, with music, more aware, responsive, confident, energetic, talkative and hopeful.

Ask Carol to delve into these winning changes. Ask her more about MMM—Music Mends Minds—-and how people everywhere can make the transition instead of giving up on life.
“Pills can only do so much,” she contends. MMM helps people take charge of their lives by creating beautiful music that brings people together.

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