Last night at The University of Manchester’s Making a Difference award, our Music in Mind programme for people living with dementia and their carers was Highly Commended in the Outstanding benefit to society through research category.
Our longstanding partnership with The University of Manchester and, in particular, Professor John Keady, was celebrated for “transforming dementia care through a moments-based lens”
The programme has been shaped by his research on “moments” as a conceptual framework: creating the moment, being in the moment, ending the moment and reliving the moment. Recognising each moment as personally meaningful has informed session design and refined MIM’s music therapy techniques. The work has established Music Cafés in local communities, co-designed scalable sessions with care homes, trained dementia champions, and launched a commissioning toolkit embedding music-based interventions in health and care systems, reaching over 11,000 participants.
We now host the UK’s First Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia, hosting free Music Cafés across all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester.
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