Resources and interventions to support service users to live well with dementia

26 July 2023, 6.00pm - 7.00pm
Delivered via Zoom

Libraries are a huge asset to those living with dementia and are well placed to share resources and interventions that support people to improve their wellbeing.

Join this webinar to hear from leading researcher and author of Supporting People to Live Well with Dementia: A guide for library services Sarah McNicol and Playlist for Life's Head of Communities Rebecca Kennedy regarding a range of music and reading-based resources and interventions.

The presentations will discuss:

How libraries and reading can support people to live well with dementia
Sarah McNicol, Researcher & Author

In this presentation, Sarah will provide an overview of the role that public libraries health libraries can play in supporting people with dementia and those who care for them. She will also discuss the potential impact that libraries can have for people with dementia and their carers – both now and in the future. The presentation will then consider how reading resources and interventions can support those affected by dementia to live well. This will include examples of resources and case studies of successful interventions designed to support both group-based and one-to-one reading activities for people with dementia and their carers.

Playlist for Life - How libraries are sharing the power of personally meaningful music
Rebecca Kennedy, Head of Communities, Playlist for Life

A person’s favourite books from throughout their life can reveal a lot about their passions, identity and culture. Music is a similarly personal medium, with special songs from our lives forming the ‘soundtrack’ to our life.       Playlist for Life is the UK’s leading music and dementia charity, raising awareness of the power of personally meaningful music for people affected by dementia. Libraries are a huge asset to those living with dementia and are well-placed to share resources that support people to use a playlist to improve their wellbeing. Come along to learn more about the benefits of personal music for people living with dementia and their carers, and how over 1,000 Libraries in the UK are sharing the power of music in their communities. 

There will be time at the end of the session for a Q&A so that you can put your questions forward to both Sarah and Rebecca.

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Sarah McNicol,
Researcher & Author

Sarah has been a researcher since 2000, working on over 80 research and evaluation projects. She has carried out research exploring how arts, culture and community organisations can support people with dementia and their carers. This has included co-creating a comic with a group of people with dementia; evaluating a shared reading programme for carers; and research into a bibliotherapy project operating in care homes. Sarah has a range of research interests and has published widely within the information sector and beyond, including 'Supporting People to Live Well with Dementia: A guide for library services' published by Facet Publishing.

Rebecca Kennedy
Head of Communities, Playlist for Life

Rebecca Kennedy earned a BMus (Communities) from the University of Aberdeen and has worked in the voluntary and health and social care sectors for over 5 years. Rebecca has worked in the care home sector as an Activities Coordinator, witnessing the impact music can have in dementia care first hand with residents. She moved to Playlist for Life in 2018 to support with the charity’s aim of bringing a playlist of personally meaningful music to everyone living with dementia in the UK. Rebecca leads the Communities Team, who are responsible for growing and sustaining a network of over 2,000 community groups and organisations across the UK sharing the power of playlists. This network includes over 1,000 libraries. The Help Point project was recently awarded a national prize for Community Engagement by the Scottish Power Foundation.