Presentatie gehouden bij de opening van het Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre tijdens het Music, Health, and Wellbeing Symposium.

A shared heart. In this contribution the research project spanning 5 years is discussed and the bringing of this practice to The Netherlands is explained. The results of the Music and Dementia project were presented during the symposium called 'While the Music Lasts - a symposium on Music and Dementia' …

Building a sense of community and social connection through spontaneous music making.Interactive 'jamming' in corners, courtyards, corridors, bedrooms and social spaces between staff, musicians and older adults with dementia has become a regular part of Monday afternoons at St Vincent’s Residential Aged …

The capacity to make music and understand it is an evolutionary development not shared by animals. Learning to play an instrument has been shown to involve the development of larger brain volume. A strong correlation has been found between high musical activity and preservation of non-verbal memory, …

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

Creatieve muziekworkshops voor (van, met) ouderen. Presentatie op het symposium ‘Healthy Lifestyle: Kunst en Cultuur. Creatief en Gezond Ondernemen!' Healthy Ageing Netwerk Noord Nederland, Nooitgedacht, 25/6/2013

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 …

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.

Presentatie tijdens de jaarlijkse vrijwilligersbijenkomst van Alzheimer Nederland

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 …