Senioren Academie lecture series ‘Healthy Ageing in de praktijk – Van kennis naar toepassing in het dagelijks leven'

This paper will detail an ethnographic research that has been conducted into the practice of ‘Music for Life’, managed by Wigmore Hall in London. The aim is creating interactive music workshops for people with dementia and there carers as a group in residential care homes. Throughout one eight-week project …

Active ageing through music. Presentation ‘Active Ageing through Music’. Conference ‘Healthy Ageing, Practice and Innovation at the Four Universities of Applied Sciences in the Northern Netherlands’, Groningen, 8/11/2012.

Presentatie tijdens de jaarlijkse vrijwilligersbijenkomst van Alzheimer Nederland

Deze paper geeft een overzicht van het onderzoek dat verricht is door het lectoraat LLM naar muziek en dementie. De methodologie van de etnografie wordt toegelicht, het principe van de analyse via grounded theory en de thick descriptions die vervolgens zijn gemaakt eveneens. Er wordt ingegaan op wat …

While the music lasts. Presentation, Wigmore Hall, London, 2012.

Music and dementia. Presentation in session ‘Healthy Ageing through Music’.

Musicians engaging with people with dementia. Presentation Greece.

The project Rhythm for Life has had a parallel project in Groningen, with the projects Learning to play an instrument at an elderly age and Creative workshops for the elderly. These were carried out in Groningen at the PCC in the framework of the research line HAMA of the research group LLMA. The second …