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Music and Dementia: The importance of multidisciplinary perspectives
Music and Dementia: The importance of multidisciplinary perspectives PhD student Robyn Dowlen is working with Manchester Camerata and University of Manchester to develop a multi-sensory research tool which will aim to capture why music is beneficial to people living with dementia over the next three years. Keep up to date with everything she is up to on this blog! ... Read More
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Songlines performance
Have a look at the video of our Songlines performance from July 2016. Young people with and without ASD/ Asperger’s created artwork, puppetry, drama and music which depicted their own stories as well as fictional characters and scenes. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)... Read More
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Music in Mind with Tameside Public Health
At the beginning of August, we finished one phase of our Music in Mind project in two Tameside care homes. Funded by Tameside Public Health, the project engaged people with dementia and carers in music-making in order to increase communication and mood and improve relationships with care staff. The sessions were extremely successful and it will be difficult to leave the two care homes, but we have delivered training sessions for the activities coordinators alongside the sessions so that they can pick up some of the music-making techniques. We are looking forward to working with two new care ho... Read More
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