Music Therapy

Singing is a powerful way of achieving deep personal and social meaning, as well as supporting our mental and physical wellbeing

A new app aims to train family carers of people with dementia to use music to support care and reduce symptoms at home

Music and reading can help people living with dementia. Now an international trial is showing that specific programs can help carers deliver these benefits to their loved ones at home

Music therapist Professor Felicity Baker uses singing and songwriting to ease the distressing behavioural and emotional symptoms of dementia

A new global study, led by the University of Melbourne, is bringing music in as medicine to treat people with dementia and depression

Music’s ability to trigger our deepest memories and emotions could help improve quality of life for people with dementia

Born from marginalised communities as a force of self-expression, Hip Hop gets an unfairly bad rap for its confronting lyrics, but its power to promote mental and social health is going mainstream

Researchers are using virtual reality technology and music therapy to get quadriplegics singing together for their health

David Ali Sonboly killed nine people in Munich. As always, there are lessons to be learned

Music is a powerful tool that can shape moods, define moments and ignite memories. In creating music we can share something of our experiences and ourselves – a notion explored in therapeutic songwriting