RESIDENTS of Avon Court nursing and residential home in Chippenham were treated to live performances of feel-good songs this week.

In a survey of 1,000 70 to 90-year-olds in September, Louis Armstrong’s 1968 chart topper What A Wonderful World was revealed as the song that gave elderly people the greatest sense of well- being. and Sheila Devers join

It came top in a poll of 50 songs, ahead of Perry Como’s Magic Moments and Doris Day’s Whatever Will Be, Will Be.

The Perfect Cure duo performed the songs that topped the poll at Avon Court on Monday as part of a Winter Wellness campaign run by Bupa in Wiltshire.

Siobhan Drane, community and partnerships manager at Bupa Care Services, said: “Using music to improve general wellbeing is just one of the many ways in which we are able to support the elderly in Wiltshire over the coming weeks.”

Professor Grenville Hancox MBE, who has been researching the relationship between music and elderly wellbeing for the past 12 years, said: “When we listen to music, the brain releases feel-good chemicals like oxytocin and dopamine that are absolutely fundamental to the feeling of wellbeing.

“The thing that binds all these songs together is the feeling of warmth, and feeling good about each other. There’s something hopeful and regenerative about the period which these songs come from.”