Use music to prompt memory by association with public events, occasions and places

• Video Description

  This video shows how music can forge powerful associations with trips and events as well as media such as favourite shows and movies.

  Filmed at Eden Court, Battersea, London Filmed at Eden Court, Battersea, London (Cinnamon Group).

• Strategies

  • Record residents singing favourite songs for later reference and enjoyment when their access to language is more difficult or is completely lost.

  • Listen in a group to old newsreels of national occasions that involve music E.g. royal weddings and funerals; the Last Night of the Proms, New Year’s Eve

  • Listen to theme tunes from favourite classic films and popular TV series

  • Listen to music from (international) sporting occasions from the pastE.g. the Olympic Games and World Cups

  • Listen to music associated with different countries, including their national anthems