Five Questions With… Kirsty Cartin

Kirsty, a Care Home Manager, shares her experience of completing Playlist for Life training and and real-life examples of how what she learnt has helped her care for people living with dementia through meaningful music,

Healing through music and culture

At Playlist for Life, we encourage anyone creating a personal playlist to include within it a range of songs that remind us of our youth, identity and people that are important to us as it’s these tracks that help us reconnect with our ourselves and loved ones. In this guest blog, Ronald Amanze, who lives […]

Five Questions With… Andy Lowndes

Playlist for Life’s Vice Chair and Resident Music Detective Andy Lowndes shares his tips and tricks for finding the right music to care for someone living with dementia.

Five Questions With… Beth Britton

Activist and Content Creator shares how her dad’s journey with dementia led her to discover the power of meaningful music and inspired her to campaign to raise greater awareness and understanding of dementia.

Playlist for Life is Scottish Charity of the Year

Playlist for Life has won Charity of the Year (turnover under £500k) at the Scottish Charity Awards. The award comes after a year of celebration for our 10th anniversary which was packed with awareness raising events that enabled us to support more people affected by dementia. Run annually by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations […]

Five Questions With… Mary McDougall

Mary McDougall, who delivers Playlist for Life’s training for health and social care professionals shares just some of the benefits that meaningful music can have for health and social professionals.