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Meaningful Music

  • Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
  • Type: News Item
  • Published: 3rd November 2021
Would you like to take part in a music and dementia study?

Take part in a music and dementia study about the impact of music in peoples lives.

Music can be of major importance in many people’s lives, and has been identified as a potentially important non-pharmacological intervention for people living with dementia. Music has been shown to facilitate conversation, interaction, emotion regulation and to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia.

In this Meaningful Music study, run by the research team at Edinburgh University, there’s an interest in finding out more about how music has an impact on the lives of people living with dementia, aiming to identify responses to music engagement that matter most for them.

To gather information about this, the team are conducting online focus groups with different groups of people affected by dementia. These will include people living with dementia, the family and close friends of people with dementia, and healthcare professionals who work with people living with dementia.

The results from this research will help to understand more about any positive and negative effects of music for people living with dementia and will give a better understanding of which responses to music are most important to capture in future research.

The research team are primarily focused on recruiting people living with dementia and the family members and close friends of people living with dementia, as they will make up the majority of the groups. 

For further information and to take part, please visit the Meaningful Music website (this link will take you away from our website).

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