Contribute to the Welsh Dementia Strategy Consultation 2026 – 2036

The Welsh Government is consulting on a new Dementia Strategy for Wales and we are are inviting all Playlist for Life Help Points in Wales to contribute. This consultation is a significant opportunity to ensure that personalised music is recognised as a powerful, non-pharmacological intervention and embedded into dementia policy across Wales.  Read on to find out how you can contribute.

Why Playlist for Life should beembedded in dementia strategy

 

  • Personalised playlists as a low-cost, high impact intervention 
  • Benefits for unpaid carers and families 
  • It directly aligns with the principles of the new Dementia Strategy for Wales like person‑centred care, co‑production, equity of access, and improved support for carers. 
  • Tying your impact and feedback into areas of consultation such as prevention, awareness raising, post-diagnostic support and support for carers

 

Why your contribution matters 

As community Help Point partners, you play a central role in bringing personalised music into the heart of Welsh communities. Our aim is for everyone in Wales affected by dementia to have a personal playlist and for everyone that comes into contact with them to know how to use it. Sharing your experiences, successes and challenges can help bring us closer to that aim and in the process improve wellbeing for people with dementia and their families and carers. 

 

About the consultation 

The Welsh Government is seeking views to inform its Dementia Strategy for 2026–2036, which aims to: 

  • Improve dementia prevention, care, and support
  • Promote personcentred and rightsbased approaches
  • Build compassionate, dementiainclusive communities
  • Strengthen diagnosis, postdiagnostic support, and workforce training
  • Embed coproduction, research, and innovation across the system.

Consultation responses can be submitted online or by emailing a response form to mentalhealthandvulnerablegroups@gov.wales 

What we’re asking from you 

Step 1. Submit your response to the consultation.

We would be grateful if you could submit responses sharing any of the following themes:

  1. How personalised music has helped people you support: Examples might include reduced agitation or distress, improved mood or engagement, helped with communication or brought comfort or connection for families and/or staff and volunteers 
  2. The impact of Playlist for Life resources, training and webinars
  3. Why personalised music should be part of Wales’s dementia strategy, 

The deadline for responses is the 6th April 2026. We have created a short template to make submitting your response easier. 

Click here to view the template
Step 2. Contribute to Playlist for Life’s consultation response.

Sharing your feedback and case studies with us, in addition to your own response, helps us make the case to embed person-centred music in dementia care that much stronger. Please consider filling in a short form to share your experience by clicking the button below. 

Click here to contribute to Playlist for Life's consultation response

Thank you

Thank you so much for the work you do and for taking the time to contribute to this important national conversation. Your insights and experiences can help shape a future where personalised music becomes a core element of dementia care across Wales. 

If you have any questions or would like help preparing your response, please feel free to email mehar@playlistforlife.org.uk. 

“From raising spirits to reducing anxiety, creating playlists have changed the lives of residents living with dementia…”
The Welsh Government