
Bold vision is needed to change a system, so is collaboration and trust
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 […]
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 […]