Musical Moments provides stimulating and interactive musical activities for care settings, working with over a thousand care homes across the UK.
Arts
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.
Orleans Gallery
The CREATE programme at Orleans Gallery has been designed to engage older adults living in care within Richmond and neighbouring boroughs. The aim of the sessions are to:
Improve quality of life for older people and their carers through delivering high quality creative engagement with the gallery’s collection.
Improve quality of life for older people and their carers in priority wards within the borough, through creative engagement with the gallery’s collection.
Area: Richmond Borough
Bloom
Developed by ambient pioneer Brian Eno and musician / software designer Peter Chilver, Bloom is part instrument, part composition and part artwork. Bloom’s controls allow anyone to create elaborate patterns and unique melodies by simply tapping the screen.
Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia
Nicci Gerrard
Really interesting article by Nicci Gerrard about the beneficial role of the arts in helping people with dementia. The author is a novelist and author and co-founder of John’s Campaign
University of Stirling
The University of Stirling has helped people living with dementia in East Dunbartonshire care homes to create digital self portraits as part of a creative arts project. Watch short film about the project.
Art in Healthcare
Art in Healthcare’s vision is ‘Art for every healthcare setting in Scotland’ and their mission is to use visual art to improve health and wellbeing.
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Creative Writes
Creative Writes run Read Aloud groups and creative writing sessions in care homes in the London area.
They are currently working on Only Connect, an Arts in Care Homes project linking up care homes with community pen pal partners to swap letters and poems.
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.
Magic Me
Magic Me is an arts charity that brings the generations together.
Watch a short film about Magic Me’s Cocktails in Care Homes project.