Use music to prompt memory by association with family events and loved ones

  • This video shows how music can be used to promote reminiscence and memory through aquired associations with family or life events.

    Filmed at Cinnamon Group care homes Leah Lodge, Blackheath and Eden Court, Battersea, London (Cinnamon Group).

    • Create (digital) family photograph albums with associated music, building up a ‘biography in sound’E.g. weddings, special birthday parties

    • Create memory bags of important personal objects and a playlist to go with them

    • Put together a compilation of video recordings of important family occasions with musicE.g. birthdays, religious festivals, holidays

    • Make a musical family tree, with a piece of music for each person

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