Posts Tagged ‘music and dementia’
PODCAST [12] Bev Foster of Room 217, on using music to change the culture of care
In this episode, I’m talking with Bev Foster, Founding Director of Room 217, a Canadian social enterprise that uses music to change the culture of care. Bev started the organisation with her husband Rob, after experiencing first-hand the power of music for her dying father. It now provides music training for care staff as well…
Read MoreThe power of music – me, my Mum, music and dementia
This is a very personal post and I hope you don’t mind me sharing it amongst my usual blogs about communications. I want to help raise awareness of the importance of music in the lives of people with dementia, and share some helpful links. My Mum passed away eight months ago, in a wonderful care…
Read MoreSix ways to raise your profile through BBC Music Day (26/9/19) and annual celebration days
BBC Music Day is a UK-wide, annual celebration of the power of music to change lives, with activities going on across the UK and across TV, radio and social media.
Read MoreBe healthy, happy, and mentally fit – make music!
We take it as read that playing a musical instrument or singing is good for the brain, the body and the emotions. Great minds such as Plato, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hans Christian Andersen have said as much, not to mention notable musicians as Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Ludwig van Beethoven and (ahem) John…
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