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Music Mirrors - Preserving Memories Through Music

Music Mirrors is a simple and practical care planning tool that uses music and sounds to cue memories. It helps individuals with memory loss to connect with their life stories and maintain their identity. This tool can be used in care homes and is supported by various organizations.

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Music Mirrors - Preserving Memories Through Music

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  1. Supported byNorfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustNorfolk and Norwich University Hospital University of East AngliaAge UK Norwich S.London Health Innovation Network Centre for Gerontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  2. Each of us is the sum of our memories. Music helps us remember things - from mother-love to times-tables. Memories fade. For most of us, memory loss is a normal part of ageing. It can also come through dementia or other illness. Hook up memory and music now in Music Mirrors totake on life’s journey.

  3. What is a Music Mirror? • A simple, practical addition to care planning • A written resource of brief life story with sounds and music embedded to cue memories • For use with the active support of a second person

  4. What skills are needed to help someone make a MM? • Being a good listener. • Ability to write down someone’s words and spot links to sounds or music. • Basic skills of writing emails and making hyperlinks to recorded music on Youtube.

  5. As soon as possible: Link short written scraps of life story to YouTube recordings of music or sounds that spark memories. Store this document (the Music Mirror) as e-mail, on disk, memory stick, website and as hard copy. It can then be attached to personal or medical records and shared wherever needed. Items can easily be added or edited. It’s now digitally portable but just as good written on paper… How do you make it?

  6. The format is important - • Justa few short sentences and links – not more than about ten. • Use someone’s own words if you can: this will help them later to remember and connect with the stories. • There’s a handbook with step-by-step guidance. • Give families and carers the ‘Thinking back about music’ leaflet to get started before you visit.

  7. For example: I was one of ten children – 8 girls and two boys. My brother Jimmy used to play the piano and had a good tenor voice – I remember us singing around the piano on Sundays, mainly hymns How great thou art   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBLRsUMtuFQ Hear my song, Violetta  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz4lKSaxsBI I had piano lessons but they didn’t come to much and I preferred singing: we went as a choir to a picture house to sing and I still have the photograph. The choir was run by a lovely old man and we sang things like Nymphs and Shepherds and Where’er you walk Nymphs and shepherds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cinx9hYiMI Where'er you walk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXYklp3CuOQ

  8. A Music Mirror: • helps to sustain identity • is a memory toolkit for comfort, reminiscing and reassurance. • has practical uses in daily life. • gives information and education for carers.

  9. But… • It’s not a playlist. The words are as important as the sounds and music. • You can make an audio version of some of the music, but be careful... • Music Mirrors are sensitive material, to be shared and used with support – not by someone on their own. • Helping to make or sharing a Music Mirror is a joy, a responsibility and a privilege.

  10. It is never too early – start now! Capture sounds and music to reflect memories and give people a voice when words have faded.

  11. Music Mirrors as a tool can help care homes comply with: • NICE quality standard (QS50) mental wellbeing of older people in care homes • Care Certificate Standards • 5.2 person-centred working • 5.6 maintaining individuals’ identity and self-esteem

  12. See also: • S.London Health Innovation Network report http://www.hin-southlondon.org/resources/music-mirrors-report  • and info-video https://vimeo.com/194667249

  13. Further Information: Heather Edwards Music Mirrors/ Come Singing heatheredwards.music@gmail.com info@comesinging.org.uk (01603) 452404 www.musicmirrors.co.uk

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