Living well with dementia cookery course

At Playlist for Life we want to highlight the work of other organisations who support people to live well with dementia. We like to promote activities that may be helpful to our readers who live with dementia themselves or support people who do. Deepness Dementia Media is a platform that gives people tools for living […]
Stories to tell: Celebrating meaningful music in South Asian culture

This month is South Asian Heritage Month, where communities and organisations across the UK make time to commemorate, mark and celebrate South Asian cultures, and the history and identity of British South Asian people. SAHM was first celebrated in 2018 and each year explores a different theme. This year’s theme is ‘stories to tell’ and […]
Sally Magnusson awarded MBE for services to dementia

Founder of music and dementia charity Playlist for Life is recognised in Birthday Honours List for services to people with dementia and their carers Writer and broadcaster Sally Magnusson founded Playlist for Life ten years ago after discovering the power music held for her mother, Mamie, who lived with dementia and died in 2012. Sally […]
A decade of harnessing meaningful music for dementia

Playlist for Life was founded in 2013 with a small team and a simple mission: to help people living with dementia through the power of meaningful music. 10 years on, we’ve helped thousands of families, carers and health and social care professionals create and benefit from personalised playlists. And this week, we all came together, […]
Carers Week: Recognising the challenges of caring for someone with dementia

Caregiving is one of the most challenging roles a person can do. It entails irregular hours, is emotionally draining and is often balanced with competing priorities like work and parenting. There are currently over 700,000 people across the UK in this job as they provide unpaid care for a friend or relative who can’t care […]
Fifth Annual Golf Day raises £35,000 for Playlist for Life

The Scottish weather was on-par for the third Friday in May as a fifth annual golf fundraiser raised £35,000 to support people living with dementia through personally meaningful music. Organised by Playlist for Life trustee Dr Frank Dunn and his wife Helen Dunn for the fifth time, the event was a great success and raised […]