Senioren Academie lecture series ‘Healthy Ageing in de praktijk – Van kennis naar toepassing in het dagelijks leven'

Warum die Arbeit mit dementen Menschen so wichtig ist für Musiker.Presentation on International symposium ‘Dementia and Music', Vechta University, Vechta DE, 21/9/2013.

Paper presented at international symposium ‘Dementia and Music. Research and Practice’. University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany, 21/9/2013. Paper argues that working with dementia for musicians and music students is important because it demands them to focus on the 'other' rather then on themselves and …

This paper will detail an ethnographic research that has been conducted into the practice of ‘Music for Life’, managed by Wigmore Hall in London. The aim is creating interactive music workshops for people with dementia and there carers as a group in residential care homes. Throughout one eight-week project …

Presentation on the research strand 'Healthy Ageing through Music and th Arts' of the research group 'Lifelong Learning in Music'. Presents the rationale behind the research strand as well as several individual projects.

This study aims to find answers to what kind of skills, qualities and understandings are needed for a musician working with elderly people with dementia, and what kinds of challenges they might encounter.

This study aims to find answers to what kind of skills, qualities and understandings are needed for a musician working with elderly people with dementia, and what kinds of challenges they might encounter.

Active ageing through music. Presentation ‘Active Ageing through Music’. Conference ‘Healthy Ageing, Practice and Innovation at the Four Universities of Applied Sciences in the Northern Netherlands’, Groningen, 8/11/2012.

Deze paper geeft een overzicht van het onderzoek dat verricht is door het lectoraat LLM naar muziek en dementie. De methodologie van de etnografie wordt toegelicht, het principe van de analyse via grounded theory en de thick descriptions die vervolgens zijn gemaakt eveneens. Er wordt ingegaan op wat …