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!

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.

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!

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.

We are excited to share our good news with you! We have received a £20,000 grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.