ReConnect
Our ReConnect programme has been running since 2013, offering person-led music workshops to dementia-inclusive performances, that improve the quality of life for people living with dementia, their families and carers. Delivered by our professional musicians in community centres, care homes and hospital wards, ReConnect challenges the stigma of dementia as a time of loss and decline and highlights the capacity for joy, connection, and creativity for people living with dementia and those that care for them.
We see a number of very positive benefits for patients, including notable positive changes to mood, reduction in stress and distress, decreased social isolation and reminiscence initiated through the music played and shared.
Delivered in partnership with
NHS Lothian, NHS Fife and the University of Edinburgh
Kindly supported by
The RS MacDonald Charitable Trust, the Dementia Trust, Elizabeth Lornie's Charitable Trust, the J MacDonald Menzies Charitable Trust and the Power of Music Small Grants programme.
