How Playlist Creation Works

Exciting news has come this spring as the foundation Music for Dementia, together with UK Music, have just released their definitive report ‘The Power of Music’.

2021 was an incredibly busy year for Music for my Mind, and we want to share with you some of the highlights of our work! This year saw the long awaited launch of the test version of our Playlist Maker App, an incredibly exciting way to create treasured personalised playlists for the people you love.

Music for my Mind would like to thank the Hollick Family Foundation for their generous support over the years!

You might already have experience with Spotify or maybe you came accross it in our Playlist Maker app. Either way, we thought it would be useful to explain this facet of our work that comes up over and over again, but remains for many a bit of a mystery as to how it actually works: Spotify.

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.