Gaelic conversations help Inverness dementia sufferers

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Native Gaelic speakers with dementia are being helped to recall memories through conversations in the language with school children.

This makes me so happy, especially because not only does it keep one of the Gaelic community’s most important cultural activities alive, i.e. the cèilidh – in other words meeting people in order to exchange stories, memories and songs – but it’s also helping to keep the language and its different traditional dialects alive through a brilliant example of intergenerational language transmission.

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Gaelic conversations help Inverness dementia sufferers