Music in Healthcare

In this programme, two phases of which have taken place to date, participatory workshops and performances took place in six long-stay residential and day care centres in the Midland Health Board region. Each phase consisted of six weeks of activity in each participating centre. Phase one ran from April to June 2000, and phase two from October to December 2000. Two facilitators led each phase of the programme, each working with two other professional musicians in three venues. The aims were to provide older people accessing day-care or living in residential care environments with access to live music experiences, including performances and participative workshops and to measure the impact of these experiences within participating centres