An older adult male passenger in a dark blue zip-up jacket sits beside a middle-aged man wearing a white t-shirt with a gold chain necklace, inside a car on an outdoor road with green trees visible through the windows. 3:14
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The song his dad with Alzheimer's still knows

A son sits at the wheel with his father beside him, and an old song starts to play. Before long, they're both singing. more

The song is "Quando, Quando, Quando," the one that keeps asking, "Oh my darling, tell me when." The father, in a dark blue zip-up jacket, faces the road with green trees outside the windows. His mouth opens on the first notes, and the words come to him.

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The father sits facing the road as the old song begins.

He has Alzheimer's. On an ordinary day, he would seem like any other man with dementia, but his son has found something that changes that, at least for a while: a song his father already knows. The clip comes from a channel called Teddy Mac, the Songaminute Man.

The son sings too, a gold chain over his white T-shirt, and he keeps looking over. He glances up between lines and grins at his dad. When they reach "you mean happiness for me," he looks like he means it.

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The son joins in and keeps glancing over at his father.

Dad has a lovely voice. He sings "every moment's a day, every day seems a lifetime" like a man who has known the words for years.

An older adult male passenger in a dark blue zip-up jacket sits beside a middle-aged man wearing a white t-shirt with a gold chain necklace, inside a car on an outdoor road with green trees visible through the windows. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
A son sits at the wheel with his father beside him, and an old song starts to play.

Partway through, they stop for a quick word, then the chorus pulls them back in. "Let me show you the way to a joy beyond compare."

By the last chorus, the father is still singing out."Say it's me that you adore," the song goes, "and then, darling, tell me when."

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The father sings out as the song heads for its final lines.

Then the music stops. Someone says, "That'll do," and it does.

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