Though more research needs to be undertaken, there is evidence that music is beneficial for people living with dementia. Steve Dow talks to researchers, academics, support organisations and arts companies to find out what is on offer, and what else needs to be done.
As two violins, a viola and a cello whirl through the intermezzo fantasy and lyricism of Schumann’s mid-19th-century String Quartet No. 1, a woman with an elegant bearing, dressed in a pink, puffy-sleeved dress and white dangly earrings, prepares to speak.
Susan Hamilton has been a clinical psychotherapist for 25 years. In 2019,...
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