Musicians from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra have been swapping concert halls for hospital wards. A pilot programme with ...

The profound impact of music on memory, especially those living with dementia, has been increasingly recognised by researchers in recent years. It's commonly known, for example, that people with ...

The risk of developing dementia may be double what was previously thought. But there are things the U.S. can do to help fight ...

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BBC Music Memories is a website designed to use music to help people with dementia reconnect with their most powerful memories. Evidence shows that music can help people with dementia to feel and ...

Local artists, including those living with dementia, will present works that challenge perceptions about dementia and celebrate creativity at all stages of life. Music Performances: Interactive ...

The Music and Dementia Care Network (MDC) was created to explore music-based interventions for dementia care and how they can have a positive impact on the well-being, health, cognition and social ...

Music is a medicine of sorts. It can lower distress in people with dementia, a new study finds. The Nov. 14 study in Nature Mental Health showed the perks of music therapy, explains how music can ...

The aim is to make east Belfast one of the most dementia-friendly places in Northern ... as a nurse for over 40 years - is one of the artists. "I was a district sister out in the district and ...

In research published in the journal Nature Mental Health, a team led by Naomi Thompson of Anglia Ruskin University highlights the benefits of music therapy for people with advanced dementia.

The benefit concert is scheduled to take place at the Circle Square Cultural Center from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26.

and the National Academy for Social Prescribing’s Power of Music Fund to enable Greater Manchester to become the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia – hosted by Manchester Camerata.