Musical Moments provides stimulating and interactive musical activities for care settings, working with over a thousand care homes across the UK.
Music
Live Music in Care
Live Music Now, University of Winchester (The Baring Foundation)
The impact of music interventions for people living and working in care settings. Read full report of Live Music Now and University of Winchester 2018 project.
Music in Hospitals & Care articles
MiHC
Boogie Mites
Find out more about Boogie Mite’s Intergenerational Music initiative : Sharing Music to Boost Well-being and Community Cohesion.
Boogie Mites have conducted an evaluation measuring community cohesion in two care homes and a day centre in Portsmouth. These settings care for older people and have been visited by children aged 10 months – 4 years, either from a Nursery School setting or with parents old on a weekly basis, for Intergenerational music sessions.
Social Care Institute for Excellence
SCIE, NAPA
Written in association with NAPA, the SCIE website has a dedicated page aimed at encouraging participation in the arts for people living in care homes.
Packed full of information about a wide range of arts activities including creative writing, visual arts, dance, using puppets, sculpture, music, pottery, digital arts, gardening and everyday creativity.
Treasury of arts activities for older people
Liz Postlethwaite, The Baring Foundation
Publication, compiling 50 accessible arts activities, for use in any setting with older people. See online copy.
Royal Albert Hall
Education & Outreach at the in the Royal Albert Hall includes dementia friendly film screenings, tea dances and Royal Albert Hall Songbook – one hour concerts for care homes in London and the London Home counties.
Find out more about all available activities
Arts Toolkit for Activity Co-ordinators and Care Staff
Arts Derbyshire
Arts Derbyshire Toolkit is aimed at staff and Activity Co-ordinators in care settings, wishing to plan and deliver arts projects. This Toolkit was produced as part of the ‘Music in Care Homes’ project which took place in 2010 and 2011. It includes information on funding, recruiting artists, promoting projects and evaluation.
A Pocket Guide to Arts Activities for People with Dementia
Collective Encounters
This toolkit produced by Collective Encounters was the result of three years of creative work in Merseyside with the carers of people living with dementia.
Contains resources and guidance on how to use the arts to engage more effectively with people who are living with dementia.
Singing for Older Peoples’ Health and Well-being Toolkit
Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Singing for Well-being toolkit was developed following feedback from clients and care staff. A training resource that supports staff and carers to organise and run singing sessions, which are sustainable, affordable and fun.
Purple Angel Music System
Resource for care home: simple and easy-to-use MP3 device pre-loaded with a selection of familiar songs and tunes for a range of musical tastes. Find out more details here
Music and Memory
Music and Memory article (2016) about the benefits of music and art therapy for people living with dementia.