Music for dementia
There are 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK. They are among the most excluded groups and at a high risk of social isolation through loss of social support networks.
As specialised dementia-trained facilitators, Movingsounds has been working in Memory Cafes, Community Centres and Care Homes and since 2016. Currently we run Covid-appropriate music and well-being sessions in partnership with local organisations and charities.
“Movingsounds have made serious differences to the quality of life of the people I work with every day.”
Watch our videos to see us in action.
From our research funded by the Sussex Community Foundation we found that participants said they felt:
Less anxiety
More mobility
Happier
More social interaction
Staff were happier
“The workshops are varied and fully inclusive. Great care is taken to tailor them to the needs of the audience.”
“Movingsounds is especially beneficial to our high need, non-verbal clients as the movement and sound aspects of the sessions allow all abilities of clients and all of the staff to enjoy themselves on an equal level”
Resources
We want the whole community to enable creativity for each other so we came together and created this animation to share some of our workshop essentials. Take these top tips and try them out! Everyone has their own way to get creativity going. We hope these will start you off or help to grow your facilitation skills.
Buy a CD of music from our workshops!
As musicians we regularly perform and record in various line ups. We love playing music from the swing era and from around the world. If you would like a CD of the music we play at the workshops for elders made by Movingsounds musicians please contact us.
Please fill in your details below for one of our CDs.
“Movingsounds have made so many differences to the lives of our residents many of whom are living with advanced dementia or are at the end of life. The care and compassion they showed when they played individually to one such resident in her room brought tears to the eyes.”
A huge thanks to all our funders for supporting our work
