Being a Music for Dementia champion – Music for Dementia

You are a game changer

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.

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

What does it entail?

A Music for Dementia Champion learns about how music can help people living with dementia so they can tell others in their community, their workplace, their family, friends and online networks.

Music is truly the gift that keeps on giving and the more people who sign up or talk about its unique contribution to people’s lives, the more the awareness grows.

The suggested actions below needn’t be time-consuming and we hope you will be able to come up with some ideas of your own, too. Come on – let’s make some noise together!

How you can help us

1. Add your name to our Champions for the campaign by completing the form below

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

1. Add your name to our Champions for the campaign by completing the form below

2. Make a video pledging your support and upload it to social media including the hashtags #musicfordementia #Music4DementiaChamp

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 for the campaign by completing the form below

2. Make a video pledging your support and upload it to social media using #musicfordementia #Music4DementiaChamp

3. Encourage fellow industry pros to join you in becoming a Champion by signposting them to the website

3. A quote goes a long way – your words matter and providing a quote for us to use on our website will show people that this matters to you and people across the music world. If it matters to you, it should matter to them, too.

4. Share your video with us so we can include it in our campaign work

5. Share our social posts on Twitter, Instagram and/or Facebook

6. Tell us if you would like to be involved in media activity around the campaign

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 for the campaign by completing the form below

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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