This chapter explores the use of personalized music as a therapeutic tool for individuals with advanced dementia. It discusses the Music and Memory program, sharing heartwarming stories of improved behavior and mood when individuals with dementia listen to their favorite songs. The chapter emphasizes the potential of music to elicit personal memories and emotions, enhance mood, and improve behavior and cognition.
Our relationship with music begins at birth, if not before, and plays a role in the formation of our identity when we are young. Now a heart-warming movement called Music & Memory is creating personalised music playlists for residents with dementia in nursing homes—who use their mobile device to hear it.