by Juliet Cockram, Managing Director of The Utley Foundation If there is one word that sums up what we need right now, it is connection. This need has united us […]
The following meeting summary was written by Douglas Noble, LMN Strategic Director for Wellbeing and Grace Meadows, Music for Dementia Programme Director, Co-chairs of the Musical Care Taskforce The Musical […]
James Sanderson, Director of Personalised Care, NHS England & NHS Improvement As I sat down to watch a film a few years ago with my youngest son I was suddenly […]
Vic Rayner, Executive Director, National Care Forum 2020 will be both the year to remember, and the year to forget. The year when we lost so many, who will never […]
Alistair Burns CBE, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Manchester The worldwide effects of COVID -19 have been well documented but older people suffer the highest mortality and negative social […]
Paul Corrigan, CBE, Former Director of Strategy and Commissioning for NHS London The Covid-19 crisis has frightened us all. For some day by day anxiety is replaced by week by […]
Baroness Sally Greengross, Chief Executive ILC-UK Music has a powerful role to play in bringing people together. While musical styles come and go out of fashion over the generations, the […]
Ming Hung Hsu, Music Therapy Lead for the national charity MHA Many of us can probably still recall a video of a ballad sung out in solidarity into an empty […]
Mohammed Ak Rauf, BAME Dementia Consultant Dementia amongst Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities is set to rise seven to eight-fold in the next three decades. However, not having a […]
Jennifer Bute, Retired doctor I was doing my usual skipping exercise and then enjoying our community swings in solitary isolation when I heard some loud music… familiar music. It was […]
