Willow Court care home receive Covid Hero Award
This week we would love to congratulate our friends over at Willow Court, Aldwickbury Crescent, who have just been highly commended in the Covid Hero Awards!
Improving the Quality of Life
for People with Memory Loss
and Dementia
Creating personalised playlists for those
About Music for my Mind
We all have favourite songs. Or a piece of music associated with a particular memory. And there’s growing evidence that music can improve the quality of life for people living with memory loss and dementia.
Music for my Mind (registered charity number 1167246) was founded in 2016 by Professor Keith McAdam, with the aim to improve the well-being of people living with memory loss and dementia, their family, friends and care-providers, by creating and making personalised music widely available, as an affordable social prescribing tool in dementia care. Through research and technological development we want to further the national efforts to raise awareness of the positive effects of music for people affected by dementia and enable easy access to personally meaningful music, wherever and whenever it’s needed. And we’ve only just begun.
The transformative effects of music
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About Music for my Mind
Music for my Mind was inspired from a creativity initiative in the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda. Our committed Board of Trustees, Team and Supporters are working towards our vision for every care home in Britain to have a music programme and for everyone living with dementia to benefit from music as an integral part of the therapy and care they receive.
How we utilise technology
Using music to access memories for people living with dementia is not a new idea; music therapists have recognised its benefits for many years. Using technology to select and deliver favourite music is new and we are exploring the possibilities by developing technological solutions.
Our contributions to research evidence
Our research will contribute to the evidence needed to influence policy makers, care providers and clinicians to deploy personalised music listening appropriately within dementia care and social prescribing. Read more about how our research programme has been developing over the years on a number of fronts.
Latest News
Real Life Stories: Barbara Windsor and Carey Mulligan
Both of these actresses, directly and indirectly affected by dementia, have done so much to not only talk about dementia, but to change the conversation: from passive woe to active, urgent, running and confident movement towards a change in social care, both nationally and globally.
We at Music for my Mind are incredibly inspired by the both of them.
Fundraising Challenges Achievements
Two of our wonderful supporters have quite literally gone the extra mile by completing the Thames Path Challenge! And in a follow-up to our earlier blogpost, we can now share that our wonderful supporter Bhaveet has completed his enormous 1000km walk, 100km of which he did in support of Music for my Mind!
Sosei Heptares Support
The kind support received from Sosei Heptares these past 3 years has been amazing. The raised funds helped us face uncertainties and encouraged us to develop our App, which aids families affected by dementia create a personalised playlist in 15 minutes.
Garfield Weston Foundation Grant
We are excited to share our good news with you! We have received a £20,000 grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation.
A Focus on the Reminiscence Bump – Publication.
Part 5 of our blog-series looks at writing and publishing the paper and how we can enact this information in other areas of MFMM’s research.
A Focus on the Reminiscence Bump – Analysis.
Part 4 of our blog-series looks at drafting the paper, our pitfalls and failings, it coming together and the final discovery (and why this is important).
Help us move to the next stage by testing our App.
You can support Music for my Mind by simply testing our free and easy-to-use playlist creation App and share some feedback with us.
A Focus on the Reminiscence Bump – Action.
Part 3 of our blog-series looks at how we set up the musical survey, the decisions we made, and the interactions we had from participants.
A Focus on the Reminiscence Bump – The First Steps.
Part 2 of our blog-series looks at the first steps we took to solve the problem of proving the well-known fact that music from a person’s youth is likely to be better remembered in old age.