Justine Schneider

Marc Block and James bring music to hospital care settings as the duo Wellspring.  Their training for this work includes an apprenticeship in Music in Health practice with Opus Music.  They occasionally write up their experiences and this blog is one example of how they have worked in one dementi

Artists who work with people with dementia are an extraordinary group of people.  I’ve been privileged to observe a number of artists at work with people with dementia.

“How can we take the pressure off health and social care?”  This was the question posed to a panel of professionals by the Lunar 21 discussion group on April 3rd, 2017.

I met Chris and Jayne at a meeting of researchers in Maastricht recently. They were representing the European Association of People with Dementia, of which Chris is vice-chair. Along with a Norwegian couple, they were advising the network on involving people with d

Our expectations of old age are increasingly overshadowed by the probability of progressive memory loss. The issues thrown up by this phenomenon have implications for scholars in the Arts and Humanities, as well as in the Social Sciences and Medicine.

There is something apposite about a university – which runs on brain power – becoming dementia-friendly. It recognises that human beings have value beyond their intellectual capacity.  How can an institution whose purpose lies in developing intellectual potential also be dementia-friendly?

In generating public understanding about dementia, the arts and social sciences have as much to offer as neuroscience.  This is the starting-point of a group which has been invited to take up the 2016-2018 residency in The Hub at Wellcome Collection, a flagship space and resource for interdiscipl

I am on a suburban London train and eavesdropping on a conversation behind me in an almost-empty carriage. The two ladies are in their sixties, I'd guess, discussing their families.

There is no way of knowing within a reasonable margin of error whether a person without symptoms will develop dementia of any kind. Yet I think if there were a reliable diagnostic tool I would want to know my risk, simply so that I could adjust my planning for my latter years.

I've spent the past weekend at a conference on music therapy and dementia at Anglia Ruskin Univeristy, Cambridge. Astonishingly, it was a world first for a conference topic that seems to be of wide interest.