Discover the power of music therapy for dementia. Learn how music can reduce distress and improve well-being in institutional ...

Dementia affects around one million people in the U.K., with more than half experiencing advanced stages of the condition.

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 ...

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 ...

Beach Boys luminary Brian Wilson faces the challenging reality of dementia, prompting a move by his family to establish a new ...

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 ...

Songs from when a person was between 10 and ... “With an aging population and increasing numbers of people diagnosed with dementia, music is a relatively straightforward and cost-effective ...

“While the concert demonstrated that music could bring people ... the quality of life for individuals with dementia,” she says. Through familiar songs, patients can reconnect with lost ...

Nile Rodgers believes songs become “internalised” in our ... already using music to help those living with dementia, BBC Music Day aims to shine a light on the work across the sector ...