Being a Music for Dementia champion - Music for Dementia

You are a game changer

You’ve declared your support for getting music into the ears and lives of people living with dementia and now the work begins.

With the number of people living with dementia set only to rise, we have to work together to make music readily available for everyone living with dementia.

How you can help

1. Add your name to our Champions list for the campaign

2. Follow us on social media and share posts with your constituents as often as you can

1. Add your name to our Champions list for the campaign

2. Make a video pledging your support and upload it to social media including the hashtag #musicfordementia #m4dChampion

3. Send us a copy of the video so we can include it in our campaigning work

4. Use our social media profile picture frame for an hour, a day, a week

1. Talk to your care setting(s) about the power of music in dementia care

2. Sign up to the Musical Care Taskforce

3. Use as many of our resources as you can to spread the word and ask others to take action

1. Embed music into your care and include it in people’s care plans

2. Advocate the use of music in dementia care whenever you can to colleagues, managers, trustees etc.

3. Add your organisation’s logo to our website

4. Follow us on social media from your personal and organisational accounts

6. Use as many of our resources as you can to spread the word and ask others to take action

1. Advocate the use of music in dementia care whenever you can to colleagues, managers, trustees etc.

2. Add your organisation’s logo to our website

3. Follow us on social media from your personal and organisational accounts

1. Add your name to our Champions list for the campaign

2. Follow us on social media and share posts as often as you can

1. Use as many of our resources as you can to spread the word and ask others to take action

2. Add your name to our Champions list for the campaign

3. Follow us on social media and share posts as often as you can

4. Tag us in any social media posts that you see showing the power of music in dementia care

5. Add our campaign frame to your social media profile pictures

Sign up to become a Champion below

We would love you to add a comment, your organisation’s logo or a video in support of Music for Dementia, if you can.

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