© Playlist for Life 2014 Registered Charity SC All rights reserved. First Published CIPFA Conference Andy Lowndes – Deputy Chair Sarah Metcalfe - CEO

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Results of evaluation Indicative findings from the first stage pilots suggest Playlist for Life is a highly person centred, high quality, non-pharmacological intervention with benefits for people living with dementia, their home carers and loved ones, care staff and staff in acute settings. Playlist for Life is also seeing exciting indications that, as well as being a useful tool in itself, it may also bring about wider culture and attitude change in care settings, making them more person-centred. We are part-funding a PhD with Glasgow Caledonian University to explore this further.

Benefits for PwD Increase communication and connection, alertness and engagement. Improve nutritional intake and promotes continence. Decrease pharmacological intervention. Decrease agitation and anxiety, and associated injury incident and falls. Elevate mood and increase perceived happiness and calmness during and after activity.

Benefits for families Helps to recover, maintain and share relationships with individual and wider family/community for support. Decrease carer stress, and provide respite. Increased perceived ability to care for person living with dementia Positive structure and focus for visits.

Benefits for staff Promote a deeper understanding of the person living with dementia and facilitate greater person centred care Make it easier to care for the person living with dementia Facilitates positive activities and smooth transitions at times of/anticipation of distress; Highly accessible activity across physical/cognitive considerations. Tool for individuals resistant to care and/or with severe dementia Create positive atmosphere in unfamiliar/distressing environment Support wider culture change towards greater person- centredness.

Potential barriers to use Lack of awareness about the potential power of personalised music Time and effort required to prepare a playlist Lack of knowledge about the person living with dementia and what music is personally meaningful to them. Technological barriers Co-morbidities eg depression, deafness

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