Personalised Playlists
A growing number of care homes are creating personalised music playlists, after research showed that people with dementia who listened the music tailored to their tastes and memories, needed less ant-anxiety and anti-psychotic medication.
Brown University USA worked with 98 care homes, and trained care workers in the Music and Memory programme. Residents’ mood, behaviour and their use of medication were recorded at the beginning and end of the study, with care homes reporting improvements in behaviour and reduction in the use of medication.