Starting 10th April 12.30pm - 3.30pm we will be partnering with the NHS and CIDs team to provide a Music Therapy Group for people with Dementia.
The group is held at Elm Lodge , Greenford and has been set up to support people with Dementia and provide respite for carers.
Transport can be provided.
The group meets weekly for 16 weeks and each session lasts 3 hours and includes a light lunch.
There are up to 12 people in each group and everyone will have some degree of difficulties with memory and words.
The group is run by a music therapist and another facilitator.
A Care Support Worker from Harlington Care will be on hand to help with personal care needs.
The sessions are available to people with Dementia who are known to the Memory Clinic at CIDS and receiving care from a family member.
To make a referral, or for more information please contact us at info@ealingcarerspartnership.org
WHAT IS MUSIC THERAPY?
Music is recognised as having an important role to play for someone with a diagnosis of dementia, and it can enable them to express themselves and their feelings in ways which may be increasingly difficult to do verbally. Working and playing together with sounds and music, as opposed to words, can be a powerful way of actively being able to feel connected to others in a way that is both spontaneous, creative and meaningful. The instruments we use in a music therapy group are accessible to musicians and non-musicians alike, and we have a wide range of musical instruments, percussion and drums which we can play. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to play them, and instead the focus is on the act of communicating and responding to each other through the different sounds that we can make.
WHAT HAPPENS IN A SESSION?
We can make things up with the instruments at hand as we respond ‘in the moment’ to others around us. We can share songs that may have important significance for us. We have a great deal of freedom in the group, and you can choose to join in as much or as little as you like. We can also sing and dance as well as think about the feelings that the music may bring up for us.
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