Playlist for Life

30/09/2026

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💚 Free resources to create your own playlist
🎵 Musical memories from years gone by
💚 The role of songs in local communities

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30/09/2026

We are thrilled to accredit Hallmark Penylan House Luxury Care Home following its excellent embedding of personalised music into the care at the home. Congratulations to the whole team 💚

21/09/2026

We want to see personal playlists used as standard in dementia care and support.

Our work with partners in NHS Fife , NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Lanarkshire has shown that personalised music has reduced stress and distress, the need for medication and improved wellbeing for families, carers and staff supporting people living with dementia.

Today at the NHS Scotland conference, our Head of Communities Rebecca Kennedy, spoke in a spotlight session called 'Embedding Personalised Music in Scotland's Dementia Care' to demonstrate exactly why our simple but effective approach can have a significant impact in dementia care.

If you're a health and social care professional and want to be part of the dementia care transformation, our training can equip you with the skills and knowledge to provide true-person centred care.

Find out more here: https://training.playlistforlife.org.uk/

18/09/2026

We're grateful to have the support of our ambassador, Sir Alex Ferguson, this 💛

To listen to Sir Alex's playlist, get support, or to find out more about National Playlist Day and the power of meaningful music for dementia, here:

The football legend Sir Alex Ferguson is a proud ambassador for Playlist for Life. In his role of ambassador, Sir Alex champions our work and helps us reach more families affected by dementia through awareness raising, fundraising. Sir Alex is helping to ensure everyone living with dementia has acce...

18/09/2026

Our short film "Music, Memories and Dementia at the Barrowland Ballroom" is out now.

Featuring our ambassador James Graham of The Twilight Sad, Natasha Wilson from NHS Fife and filmed at the Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow, it explores the transformative power of music for people affected by dementia.

Through an open and emotive conversation, they discuss this power through James's experience of supporting his mum who lived with dementia and Natasha's work using music to support people living with the condition 💚

🎥 Isa Rao
🎶 thanks to The Twilight Sad, Domino Publishing Co.

18/09/2026

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To find out more about National Playlist Day and the power of meaningful music for dementia, head to the link in Playlist's for Life's bio 💛

18/09/2026

A message from our founder Sally Magnusson this .

17/09/2026

We teamed up with the Cavern Club Liverpool to raise awareness of the power of personalised music for people with dementia this .

Playlist for Life champion Dean McShane, who is a Mental Health Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores, met with Scouse legends of the music world at the famous venue

Brian Nash of Frankie Goes To Hollywood (Official) , Ian Prowse & Amsterdam, Peter Hooton Page of The Farm and Fran from Fighting Dementia Podcast share the songs that feature on the soundtrack of their lives.

Filmed and edited by Salma Shalaby.