Music for my Mind Information

A UK based charity using research and technology to improve the lives of people living with dementia and memory loss through music. Help us by testing our playlist creation App! We want to enable universal adoption of personalised music as an affordable therapy for people living with dementia (e.g. as an alternative or in addition to drug treatments, to reduce agitation or combat depression) and others affected by it (family, friends and carers). Personalised music can recreate the ‘common ground’ stolen from their relationships and our pilot studies confirm this (see our video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KTgAs1sKHs). Our long-term vision is for every care home in Britain to have a music programme and for everyone living with dementia to benefit from music as an integral part of the therapy and care they receive. Our mission, therefore, is: through research and technological development, to promote and enable the take up of personalised music to improve the well-being and quality of life of people living with dementia, their relatives, friends and carers. We have adopted four strategic objectives to guide our work: 1. To develop cost effective and user-friendly technological solutions to enable rapid creation of personalised playlists for people living with dementia, i.e. to create a playlist in an hour. 2. To develop cost effective and user-friendly solutions for the delivery of personalised music on demand in a range of dementia care settings. 3. To build the evidence base for the effectiveness of personalised music to improve the quality of life and well-being of people living with, or affected by, dementia. 4. To promote awareness and take up of personalised music to improve the quality of life of people living with, or affected by, dementia. We all have soundtracks to our lives. We want to enable people affected by dementia to enjoy their life soundtrack through easy-to-access personalised music.