What will they play in the nursing home when I'm an OAP

[bumblebee50]

This isn't really an AIBU, well kind of. Me and my DH walked past a nursing home last week. They were having an open day and were playing a lot of old songs - think Frank Sinatra etc. I'm curious to know what songs will be played when I get to that stage (currently early 50s) - are we talking Duran Duran, Madonna, Coldplay or whatever? I hate the thought it sitting there will forced joviality forced upon me. is it not all a bit patronising?

I used to work in a dementia ward and this used to infuriate me! Most patients were teenagers and young adults in the early 1960s.
Elvis Presley hits were sometimes played but Cliff? Johnny Cash? The Beatles? Nope. It was all wartime classics.

There's a great dementia charity called playlist for life which focuses on this - the music of their youth/ significant events like their wedding song can be really helpful in calming people with dementia who are confused and agitated and that's what the charity focuses on.

One weekend the nurses and I went rogue and blasted a compilation that included the Kinks, The Troggs and Pink Floyd. It went down very well. Sadly the ward manager confiscated the CD on the Monday

I have visions of the nursing homes of the 2050s being full of old dears going "I am a fire starter......".

Bit of the Happy Mondays will do me just fine. Well, that was the music I listened to in my 20s.

Other than that I'm happy with some 80s cheesetastic stuff like Bananarama.

Aww thanks Ineedmorelemonpledge. I can certainly bring the biscuits.

I've always assumed that we'll be listening to Vera Lynn because of some outdated stereotype that refuses to die.

My grandma threatened to haunt us if we played Vera Lynn at her funeral. She wanted the theme song from The Muppets (and got it). She was an odd lady... (still my role model!)

70s girl here. Iggy's Raw Power, Velvet's Some Kinda Love, Rolling Stones Star, Star...
It'll be fun.

I'm going to lead a bunch of metalhead oap's. I'll have a lot of hair rock from the late 80's for daytime chill (Def Lepards "Hysteria" is 30 this year!) and after a few beers I'll crank it up with a bit of Metallica and SOAD.

napqueen i was going to suggest children of the night or maybe 6 days on the run and wonderfull daze
i can totally see a "happy hardcore" nursing home!

Seventy and eighty year olds now would have been listening to the Beatles and the Stones as teenagers, Frank Sinatra and Vera Lynn were from their parents' generation.

I've never understood why music for older people is stuck in such a time warp.

bikerun dh is under orders to put a request in for my 90th - fire starter with a story about the bed collapsing on R 2

The Prodigy 'Firestarter'

I want to sign up with phleb

I'm with Phleb too!

She wanted the theme song from The Muppets (and got it)

I can do pretty much the entire lyrics to the "American Idiot" album. One blast of that will have my synapses firing all over the place.

I work in a care home and residents vary from 70 to 90 and so the music goes from Sinatra to the Beatles. A couple like Country and Western. We do put old musicals on TV they all seem to sing along to things like singing in the rain and the Wizard of oz.
My co workers and I have this same conversation of what will play when we are old enough for the care home. For me it'll be Abba, David Bowie etc from my teen years.

There was a thread about this a few months ago. Imagine the Kylies, Traceys and Claires being pushed around in their wheelchairs by Millicent, Violet and May.

If I get that far Queen, Abba, Blondie and 80's Madonna, (anything 80's actually) will do me. Hoping not to though...

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We can sort out a mosh pit and demand snakebite and black on the drinks menu. Demand walkers with skulls on and insist that they play Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit at medication time. Get the Hairy Bikers in to do the catering and play "I'll sleep when I'm dead" each night before lights out. They'll be no shame in wandering a bit and losing the thread because, well, Ozzy, man. I might even strike up a late life relationship with a gentleman who can recognise the beauty in my Killdozer albums.

For me I'm hoping green day, manics, chili peppers and foos - although the song basket case might be a bit weird to listen to in that context

There's a great dementia charity called playlist for life

About 10 years ago, I made myself a CD called "The Lyrics of my Life" (to pinch a lyric from The Charlatans) of all the songs that have stayed with me. The dc found it in my car recently and delight in getting me to tell them what my memories associated with each song are.

Really good point. You see these 75 year olds in homes NOW on TV singing along to Vera Lynn. What??? My lovely mum died at 80 nearly 5 years ago and was more a Johnny Cash fan. Surely anyone born after 1940 isn't listening to Dame Vera. People born post war (so say 48 onwards) were teens in the 50/60's.

I want to listen to U2, Erasure, Wham, Spandau etc.

I'm in the middle of composing my letter of protest to the Curzon cinema, who describe in their latest magazine the upcoming Morrissey biopic ('England is Mine') as being a swaggering testament to a 'bygone era'.

Thanks a lot, 12 year old copywriter.

Or perhaps nursing home fare after all?