Musica para Despertar =MusicForAwakening
Basic information
Project Title
Musica para Despertar =MusicForAwakening
Full project title
“Musica para Despertar” (Music for Awakening): transforming Alzheimer Care, resources for everyone.
Category
Prioritising the places and people that need it the most
Project Description
“Musica para Despertar” improves the well-being of people with Alzheimer's and other dementias and those around them by providing a soundtrack to their lives. They may forget their children's names, but the songs and associated emotions can last until the end, helping to manage complicated associated behaviors such as agitation or isolation. Providing adequate cognitive stimulation, towards slowing the progression of dementia.
Geographical Scope
Cross-border/international
Project Region
CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL: France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, México, Argentina, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Ecuador, Perú, Colombia, Puerto Rico
Urban or rural issues
It addresses urban-rural linkages
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
EU Programme or fund
No
Description of the project
Summary
- General Objective: implement and extend personalized music therapy, through autobiographical playlists, headphones and mp3, as a tool based on Person-Centered Care, which allows to better manage certain behaviors (agitation, mood, isolation ...) associated with dementia.
- Specific Objective: improve the welfare of people with mild, moderate and advanced dementia, their families and professionals who care for them. Approach to the management of behavioral disorders associated with non-pharmacological alternatives. Training for professionals, students, caregivers and family members. Social awareness and sensitization.
RESULTS ACHIEVED
- Use the preservation of musical memory and the ability to feel emotions in people injured by Alzheimer disease to:
• Decrease behavioral disorders and agitation (aggressiveness, complaints, negativism, wandering) in people in mild, moderate and advanced stages.
• Decrease depressive symptoms, isolation, anxiety and subjective sensation of pain.
• Promote cognitive stimulation (memory, attention) towards slowing the progression of dementia, and social relationships.
• Improve cooperation, food intake, language, mood.
• Improves quality of life of the user, family members, and professionals who care for them.
• Training in the procedure and method: How to start this process with each family? when to apply the music? what therapeutic objectives is coherent? how to register the changes that we observe? how to use the different electronic devices?
• Social Media Awareness on the importance of our role and our approach through love, music, respect, Person Centered Attention (PCA), Validation and Mindfulness.
- Specific Objective: improve the welfare of people with mild, moderate and advanced dementia, their families and professionals who care for them. Approach to the management of behavioral disorders associated with non-pharmacological alternatives. Training for professionals, students, caregivers and family members. Social awareness and sensitization.
RESULTS ACHIEVED
- Use the preservation of musical memory and the ability to feel emotions in people injured by Alzheimer disease to:
• Decrease behavioral disorders and agitation (aggressiveness, complaints, negativism, wandering) in people in mild, moderate and advanced stages.
• Decrease depressive symptoms, isolation, anxiety and subjective sensation of pain.
• Promote cognitive stimulation (memory, attention) towards slowing the progression of dementia, and social relationships.
• Improve cooperation, food intake, language, mood.
• Improves quality of life of the user, family members, and professionals who care for them.
• Training in the procedure and method: How to start this process with each family? when to apply the music? what therapeutic objectives is coherent? how to register the changes that we observe? how to use the different electronic devices?
• Social Media Awareness on the importance of our role and our approach through love, music, respect, Person Centered Attention (PCA), Validation and Mindfulness.
Key objectives for sustainability
The care of people with dementia, especially in advanced stages, where we will find a higher degree of complicated behaviors such as agitation, aggression, erratic wandering, isolation ... can become very expensive, on the one hand, by the professionals needed for a dignified and adequate treatment; on the other hand, by the most used therapeutic tools, being excessive the use of physical restraint tools such as belts or straps, or chemical as pharmacological therapy.
The use of the “Música para Despertar” up tool reduces the use of drugs in people with dementia, favoring the reduction of the environmental impact of human activities, and the prevention of biodiversity loss, from an environmental point of view.
According to a 2007 study by a group of researchers at a treatment plant near Hyderabad (India), up to 90% of the medication we take is excreted intact in our urine.
The problem is global and pressing: our drugs are polluting the waters, with harmful effects on the environment, but also with potentially catastrophic repercussions for human health.
Karin Helwig, a researcher specializing in pharmacological pollution at Glasgow Caledonian University, adds that "perhaps we need to re-examine our attitudes towards disease" in order to reduce drug consumption.
We propose a more economical, person-centered, and person-centered care system, where through different pathways, we achieve improvement of the person's well-being, through more economical methods and with fewer side effects.
We will integrate music in the dimensions of the person, which also contributes to sustainability:
- Physical and physiological: movement, dance... - allowing to enhance autonomy.
- Cognitive: stimulation of language, attention, memory... - allowing slowing down the progression of dementia.
- Emotional
- Social: group music sessions
- Spiritual
The use of the “Música para Despertar” up tool reduces the use of drugs in people with dementia, favoring the reduction of the environmental impact of human activities, and the prevention of biodiversity loss, from an environmental point of view.
According to a 2007 study by a group of researchers at a treatment plant near Hyderabad (India), up to 90% of the medication we take is excreted intact in our urine.
The problem is global and pressing: our drugs are polluting the waters, with harmful effects on the environment, but also with potentially catastrophic repercussions for human health.
Karin Helwig, a researcher specializing in pharmacological pollution at Glasgow Caledonian University, adds that "perhaps we need to re-examine our attitudes towards disease" in order to reduce drug consumption.
We propose a more economical, person-centered, and person-centered care system, where through different pathways, we achieve improvement of the person's well-being, through more economical methods and with fewer side effects.
We will integrate music in the dimensions of the person, which also contributes to sustainability:
- Physical and physiological: movement, dance... - allowing to enhance autonomy.
- Cognitive: stimulation of language, attention, memory... - allowing slowing down the progression of dementia.
- Emotional
- Social: group music sessions
- Spiritual
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Residences have to move from care method from social-health centers to small living units, less hospital appearance and more Home.
From “Música para Despertar” we have been in the sector all our lives, identifying priority needs of centers, users, professionals, family members, caregivers... contributing to the real implementation of these systems, with the necessary psychological training to provide tools to help users and allow professionals to save time in their work and reduce the burden.
We have proven the effectiveness of these tools and we will fight to provide the greatest dignity and quality in the care of people with dementia, and defend the therapeutic benefits behind music, culture and art. They deserve our respect and attention, focused on the story behind each person and the soundtrack of his or her life. Those melodies that can accompany us until the moment of death, making the last moments of life, as a necessary and sublime experience, and that needs to be understood, shown and accompanied.
It is necessary to carry out an individualized and personalized process. Analyzing the life history of each person, tastes, preferences. Generating emotional benefits (connecting through the music with memories and traditions, through reminiscence) and cultural benefits (putting in value the traditional, regional songs), fostering a sense of belonging through meaningful experiences (putting in value the traditional music) or integrating new lasting cultural and social values (generating a faster transformation of the sector).
It is necessary to ask for help from the people we serve: What they have dedicated themselves to professionally, what jobs they enjoyed, etc. The idea is to motivate the autonomy of the person through activities of their interest and to motivate the feeling of usefulness, so closely related to self-esteem.
From “Música para Despertar” we have been in the sector all our lives, identifying priority needs of centers, users, professionals, family members, caregivers... contributing to the real implementation of these systems, with the necessary psychological training to provide tools to help users and allow professionals to save time in their work and reduce the burden.
We have proven the effectiveness of these tools and we will fight to provide the greatest dignity and quality in the care of people with dementia, and defend the therapeutic benefits behind music, culture and art. They deserve our respect and attention, focused on the story behind each person and the soundtrack of his or her life. Those melodies that can accompany us until the moment of death, making the last moments of life, as a necessary and sublime experience, and that needs to be understood, shown and accompanied.
It is necessary to carry out an individualized and personalized process. Analyzing the life history of each person, tastes, preferences. Generating emotional benefits (connecting through the music with memories and traditions, through reminiscence) and cultural benefits (putting in value the traditional, regional songs), fostering a sense of belonging through meaningful experiences (putting in value the traditional music) or integrating new lasting cultural and social values (generating a faster transformation of the sector).
It is necessary to ask for help from the people we serve: What they have dedicated themselves to professionally, what jobs they enjoyed, etc. The idea is to motivate the autonomy of the person through activities of their interest and to motivate the feeling of usefulness, so closely related to self-esteem.
Key objectives for inclusion
One of our objectives is to make this tool accessible and affordable to people with Alzheimer's and other dementias, family members, professionals who care for them, in centers and homes where they are cared for.
Celebration of the Diversity of seniors with different capaities.
The group of elderly people in a situation of dependency and/or cognitive impairment is very heterogeneous and thanks to “Música para Despertar” diversity has been valued, recognized and normalized.
Promotion of generational exchanges: There are experiences in which the participation of young volunteers has been achieved after receiving training in the use of Autobiographical Music with elderly people in residences.
Dealing with spatial segregation and isolation: Thanks to Music, it has been possible to intervene to prevent spatial segregation and isolation.
It is very easy to happen and it becomes normalized given the characteristics and behavior of people suffering from these pathologies.
Support for vulnerable members of the community.
Increased opportunities for social interaction among all.
We note:
- inequalities in health care for the elderly, and even more so if we are talking about people with dementia, as was already reflected during the covid-19 pandemic, leaving thousands of people with dementia unattended until their death.
- excessive use of physical and chemical restraint tools, depriving the person of autonomy and dignity, and with high side effects.
- poorly managed and organized work for auxiliary nursing staff, with a high presence of work stress, directly affecting the care of people with dementia.
Gender equality: our work is especially directed towards women, since both users with dementia, caregivers and auxiliary nursing professionals are usually women, contributing to their welfare.
Celebration of the Diversity of seniors with different capaities.
The group of elderly people in a situation of dependency and/or cognitive impairment is very heterogeneous and thanks to “Música para Despertar” diversity has been valued, recognized and normalized.
Promotion of generational exchanges: There are experiences in which the participation of young volunteers has been achieved after receiving training in the use of Autobiographical Music with elderly people in residences.
Dealing with spatial segregation and isolation: Thanks to Music, it has been possible to intervene to prevent spatial segregation and isolation.
It is very easy to happen and it becomes normalized given the characteristics and behavior of people suffering from these pathologies.
Support for vulnerable members of the community.
Increased opportunities for social interaction among all.
We note:
- inequalities in health care for the elderly, and even more so if we are talking about people with dementia, as was already reflected during the covid-19 pandemic, leaving thousands of people with dementia unattended until their death.
- excessive use of physical and chemical restraint tools, depriving the person of autonomy and dignity, and with high side effects.
- poorly managed and organized work for auxiliary nursing staff, with a high presence of work stress, directly affecting the care of people with dementia.
Gender equality: our work is especially directed towards women, since both users with dementia, caregivers and auxiliary nursing professionals are usually women, contributing to their welfare.
Results in relation to category
- More than 190 Senior Centers reached - training for the maximum number of professionals; practice and therapy sessions for people with dementia; supervision and follow-up; workshops for family members.
- More than 1000 professionals reached in person and online - training, guidance, counseling, supervision and follow-up; providing new tools, reducing burnout syndrome, increasing work motivation, gaining time in the care of people with dementia.
- More than 950 people with Alzheimer directly assisted - elaboration of personalized playlists for each person, reducing behavioral disorders, improving mood, social relations, enabling greater autonomy. Providing Cognitive Stimulation, towards slowing down the progression of dementia.
- Articles and appearances in hundreds of international media: CNN Atlanta, Informativos Telecinco, Antena 3 Noticias, The Guardian, BBC News, The San Francisco Globe, El Mundo, RCN Radio Colombia, EcosSocialesMéxico, Diario Médico, Radio Vida FM Costa Rica, Mente Sana, El País, etc.
- More than 120 million views of our social awareness videos, in a total of 170 countries, more than 230,000 followers on social networks.
- More than 1000 professionals reached in person and online - training, guidance, counseling, supervision and follow-up; providing new tools, reducing burnout syndrome, increasing work motivation, gaining time in the care of people with dementia.
- More than 950 people with Alzheimer directly assisted - elaboration of personalized playlists for each person, reducing behavioral disorders, improving mood, social relations, enabling greater autonomy. Providing Cognitive Stimulation, towards slowing down the progression of dementia.
- Articles and appearances in hundreds of international media: CNN Atlanta, Informativos Telecinco, Antena 3 Noticias, The Guardian, BBC News, The San Francisco Globe, El Mundo, RCN Radio Colombia, EcosSocialesMéxico, Diario Médico, Radio Vida FM Costa Rica, Mente Sana, El País, etc.
- More than 120 million views of our social awareness videos, in a total of 170 countries, more than 230,000 followers on social networks.
How Citizens benefit
Citizens who benefit or are affected by the project and civil society have been involved in the different phases of the joint design, decision making and implementation, being decisive in the development.
People with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: participants in the selection of songs of their lives. In mild phases we will have the person more directly; in advanced phases we must be trained in analysis of verbal and nonverbal language, as well as behaviors associated with music and emotions; autobiographical playlists, life history analysis, best times of application and possible therapeutic objectives. Improvement of well-being; reduction of complicated behaviors. At home and senior centers
Family members: training and accompaniment; musical selection; joint musical sessions, join with headphones in the same player to the person with dementia and his family member; improves well-being in the family member, reduces stress. Both at home (70% of people with dementia) and those accompanying in centers.
Senior Centers: implementation of tools; training; practices and material; increase work motivation and decrease burnout syndrome.
Technical professionals: selection of users, practical application; evaluation and follow-up system; Auxiliary professionals: empowerment; support implementation of non-pharmacological tools; musical selection; application of music; greater cooperation of people in important moments such as hygiene, transfers, meals, nights... saving time, reducing the emotional and physical intensity of certain situations.
General society: increase awareness and social awareness; necessary mobilization of people, with emotional and real campaigns, showing proper vision of people with dementia, sharing tools that can be helpful.
People with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: participants in the selection of songs of their lives. In mild phases we will have the person more directly; in advanced phases we must be trained in analysis of verbal and nonverbal language, as well as behaviors associated with music and emotions; autobiographical playlists, life history analysis, best times of application and possible therapeutic objectives. Improvement of well-being; reduction of complicated behaviors. At home and senior centers
Family members: training and accompaniment; musical selection; joint musical sessions, join with headphones in the same player to the person with dementia and his family member; improves well-being in the family member, reduces stress. Both at home (70% of people with dementia) and those accompanying in centers.
Senior Centers: implementation of tools; training; practices and material; increase work motivation and decrease burnout syndrome.
Technical professionals: selection of users, practical application; evaluation and follow-up system; Auxiliary professionals: empowerment; support implementation of non-pharmacological tools; musical selection; application of music; greater cooperation of people in important moments such as hygiene, transfers, meals, nights... saving time, reducing the emotional and physical intensity of certain situations.
General society: increase awareness and social awareness; necessary mobilization of people, with emotional and real campaigns, showing proper vision of people with dementia, sharing tools that can be helpful.
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Innovative character
The tool we present in this project is new in Europe.
The main actions have been focused on assistance in basic needs of daily life and have been advanced in prevention and maintenance from a physical and mental point of view. In practice, the great benefits have been seen in terms of: improvements in quality of life, person-centered care, improvement of behavioral reactions, reduction of chemical restraints.
The novelty and the dissemination that has been achieved has been reflected in the repercussion it has had not only in Europe but worldwide.
Individualized and personalized sessions, with autobiographical music (that which has accompanied the person's life), through headphones and MP3 player. We involve family members to investigate the person's Life History, identifying the most important songs of his or her Vital Soundtrack.
The effects remain longer after the cessation of the music, since we work with emotions that are associated with different situations, last over time, stimulating implicit memory of the participants and enhancing the learning process.
The latest neuroscientific advances argue that among the last areas to atrophy in the brain injured by Alzheimer's disease are those responsible for musical memory and the ability to feel emotions.
So far the music applied by Music Therapy professionals, from “Música para Despertar”, to meet the needs we find at the social level, we have focused on providing the necessary training, through all the means at our disposal, so that anyone can apply music towards specific goals, improving the welfare of the person with dementia. Through tools available to anyone, and without the need to know how to play a musical instrument, being something that would make music therapeutically accessible to anyone, their families, and professionals who serve them.
The main actions have been focused on assistance in basic needs of daily life and have been advanced in prevention and maintenance from a physical and mental point of view. In practice, the great benefits have been seen in terms of: improvements in quality of life, person-centered care, improvement of behavioral reactions, reduction of chemical restraints.
The novelty and the dissemination that has been achieved has been reflected in the repercussion it has had not only in Europe but worldwide.
Individualized and personalized sessions, with autobiographical music (that which has accompanied the person's life), through headphones and MP3 player. We involve family members to investigate the person's Life History, identifying the most important songs of his or her Vital Soundtrack.
The effects remain longer after the cessation of the music, since we work with emotions that are associated with different situations, last over time, stimulating implicit memory of the participants and enhancing the learning process.
The latest neuroscientific advances argue that among the last areas to atrophy in the brain injured by Alzheimer's disease are those responsible for musical memory and the ability to feel emotions.
So far the music applied by Music Therapy professionals, from “Música para Despertar”, to meet the needs we find at the social level, we have focused on providing the necessary training, through all the means at our disposal, so that anyone can apply music towards specific goals, improving the welfare of the person with dementia. Through tools available to anyone, and without the need to know how to play a musical instrument, being something that would make music therapeutically accessible to anyone, their families, and professionals who serve them.
Disciplines/knowledge reflected
In the project there are many professionals, areas and direct players interacting with each other.
Action channels:
• Training
• Practical sessions and therapy
• -Supervision and Follow-up
• Awareness and Social Sensitization
• Accompaniment
• Project implementation
Our expertise is based on:
• Psychology: creation, training and practice; cognitive stimulation; management of complicated behaviors.
• Neuropsychology: neuropsychological evaluation and process creation.
• Marketing: specific awareness-raising campaigns, media outreach videos
• Senior Center Management: integration of tools
• Music: music selection, tempo monitoring (BPM), musical modes (minor, major, Greek)
• Music therapy: integration of musical sessions towards therapeutic objectives, based on musical elements.
• Sociocultural Animation: integration of musical sessions towards leisure, social and stimulation objectives.
• Professional audio and video recording and editing: towards awareness campaigns, training processes, etc.
Integrating our profiles, creating our own method, adaptable to any professional profile, family or caregiver; adaptable to each person with dementia, their needs, tastes and preferences.
Professionals, disciplines and key fields of knowledge in the development and implementation:
• Technical professionals in Senior Centers (psychology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy social work, management, nursing, medicine).
• Auxiliary nursing professionals in senior centers
• Residences, Day Care Centers, Family Associations
• Universities
• Professional Associations
Focusing on the role of the most direct protagonists:
Integrating all profiles, we will achieve a comprehensive care of the person with dementia, focusing on all its dimensions: physical and physiological; cognitive; emotional; social and spiritual.
Towards the implementation of a new social model to build a better
Action channels:
• Training
• Practical sessions and therapy
• -Supervision and Follow-up
• Awareness and Social Sensitization
• Accompaniment
• Project implementation
Our expertise is based on:
• Psychology: creation, training and practice; cognitive stimulation; management of complicated behaviors.
• Neuropsychology: neuropsychological evaluation and process creation.
• Marketing: specific awareness-raising campaigns, media outreach videos
• Senior Center Management: integration of tools
• Music: music selection, tempo monitoring (BPM), musical modes (minor, major, Greek)
• Music therapy: integration of musical sessions towards therapeutic objectives, based on musical elements.
• Sociocultural Animation: integration of musical sessions towards leisure, social and stimulation objectives.
• Professional audio and video recording and editing: towards awareness campaigns, training processes, etc.
Integrating our profiles, creating our own method, adaptable to any professional profile, family or caregiver; adaptable to each person with dementia, their needs, tastes and preferences.
Professionals, disciplines and key fields of knowledge in the development and implementation:
• Technical professionals in Senior Centers (psychology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy social work, management, nursing, medicine).
• Auxiliary nursing professionals in senior centers
• Residences, Day Care Centers, Family Associations
• Universities
• Professional Associations
Focusing on the role of the most direct protagonists:
Integrating all profiles, we will achieve a comprehensive care of the person with dementia, focusing on all its dimensions: physical and physiological; cognitive; emotional; social and spiritual.
Towards the implementation of a new social model to build a better
Methodology used
The methodology and approach used has been refined over the years.
Developing and adapting the way of approaching the practice according to the observation and the needs that have been detected in the people involved.
• Clinical Practice: more than 10 years
• Analysis of scientific references
• Union of different professionals
• Personalized and individualized treatment, focused on the person and his or her life history.
• On-site training
• Online training; family caregivers at home, 70% of people with dementia cared for by their relatives, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; reaching people in other countries.
• Audiovisual recording of sessions
• Social Awareness and Sensitization
Professional societies consider non-pharmacological therapies (NPTs) in the first place to manage behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementias, with similar benefit to drugs, but superior drug side effects (APA Work Group, 2007; Waldemar et al., 2007; Hogan et al., 2008; Sociedad Española de Neurología, 2009). To obtain cognitive and functional benefits, the British state institute recommends cognitive stimulation ahead of drugs (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence 2006).
Within NPTs, we rely on autobiographical music, neuroscientific studies that advocate the preservation of musical memory in people with Alzheimer's, as well as effectiveness in the management of agitation, something very common in the disease (Baird, A. et al., 2009; Janata, P. 2009; Vanstone et al., 2010; Johnson et al., 2011; Jacobsen, JH. et al., 2015).
We focused on numerous studies circa 2009 (Cuddy et al. 2005; Baird et al.; Heeok Park PhD; Janata, P.; Levitin et al. 2009), as well as the most recent studies, from major laboratories worldwide, through Magnetic Resonance Imaging, conducted in 2015 (Jacobsen et al. 2015; Clark et al., 2015).
Developing and adapting the way of approaching the practice according to the observation and the needs that have been detected in the people involved.
• Clinical Practice: more than 10 years
• Analysis of scientific references
• Union of different professionals
• Personalized and individualized treatment, focused on the person and his or her life history.
• On-site training
• Online training; family caregivers at home, 70% of people with dementia cared for by their relatives, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; reaching people in other countries.
• Audiovisual recording of sessions
• Social Awareness and Sensitization
Professional societies consider non-pharmacological therapies (NPTs) in the first place to manage behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementias, with similar benefit to drugs, but superior drug side effects (APA Work Group, 2007; Waldemar et al., 2007; Hogan et al., 2008; Sociedad Española de Neurología, 2009). To obtain cognitive and functional benefits, the British state institute recommends cognitive stimulation ahead of drugs (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence 2006).
Within NPTs, we rely on autobiographical music, neuroscientific studies that advocate the preservation of musical memory in people with Alzheimer's, as well as effectiveness in the management of agitation, something very common in the disease (Baird, A. et al., 2009; Janata, P. 2009; Vanstone et al., 2010; Johnson et al., 2011; Jacobsen, JH. et al., 2015).
We focused on numerous studies circa 2009 (Cuddy et al. 2005; Baird et al.; Heeok Park PhD; Janata, P.; Levitin et al. 2009), as well as the most recent studies, from major laboratories worldwide, through Magnetic Resonance Imaging, conducted in 2015 (Jacobsen et al. 2015; Clark et al., 2015).
How stakeholders are engaged
Participation in the design and implementation of the project “Música para Despertar” has had an important level of participation of different stakeholders at all levels.
Local: starting as volunteers, improving the welfare of people with dementia, accompanying family members and training caregivers, professionals and centers. Participating in congresses and conferences; direct relations with Senior Centers; University of Granada; Granada City Council.
Regional: expanding training and therapeutic tools throughout Andalusia, all provinces; Lares Andalucía and Junta de Andalucía; Good Practices Team; Andalusian School of Public Health.
National: expanding training and therapeutic tools throughout Spain; Lares Federación; Foro Técnico de Formación; Lares Comunidad Valenciana; IMSERSO
European: expanding training and therapeutic tools online to professionals in Portugal or Italy; and face-to-face in France (2018) and Portugal.
International: expanding training and therapeutic tools online to professionals and family members in Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, and face-to-face in Costa Rica (2018) and Uruguay (2018).
• "Music Cities Awards", "Best Initiative Using Music to Improve Health & Wellbein", USA, 2022
• "Dedication to the Elderly" Award La Tarde de Juan y Medio, CanalSur TV, 2018
• Andaluces del Futuro Social Action Award, Bankia and Grupo Joly, 2018
• Teaming Foundation Award Proyecto Más Activo, Barcelona, 2017
• VI Senior Citizen Awards, Junta de Andalucía, Consejera de Igualdad y Políticas Sociales, 2016
• Award for the Elderly, Granada City Council, 2016
• Young Social Entrepreneurs Award, European University of Madrid and Laureate International Universities, 2015
• "Making More Health" Award Ashoka and Boehringer Ingelheim (Barcelona) 2015
• Winner Project Think Big Youngs de Fundación Telefónica, 2013-14
Local: starting as volunteers, improving the welfare of people with dementia, accompanying family members and training caregivers, professionals and centers. Participating in congresses and conferences; direct relations with Senior Centers; University of Granada; Granada City Council.
Regional: expanding training and therapeutic tools throughout Andalusia, all provinces; Lares Andalucía and Junta de Andalucía; Good Practices Team; Andalusian School of Public Health.
National: expanding training and therapeutic tools throughout Spain; Lares Federación; Foro Técnico de Formación; Lares Comunidad Valenciana; IMSERSO
European: expanding training and therapeutic tools online to professionals in Portugal or Italy; and face-to-face in France (2018) and Portugal.
International: expanding training and therapeutic tools online to professionals and family members in Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, and face-to-face in Costa Rica (2018) and Uruguay (2018).
• "Music Cities Awards", "Best Initiative Using Music to Improve Health & Wellbein", USA, 2022
• "Dedication to the Elderly" Award La Tarde de Juan y Medio, CanalSur TV, 2018
• Andaluces del Futuro Social Action Award, Bankia and Grupo Joly, 2018
• Teaming Foundation Award Proyecto Más Activo, Barcelona, 2017
• VI Senior Citizen Awards, Junta de Andalucía, Consejera de Igualdad y Políticas Sociales, 2016
• Award for the Elderly, Granada City Council, 2016
• Young Social Entrepreneurs Award, European University of Madrid and Laureate International Universities, 2015
• "Making More Health" Award Ashoka and Boehringer Ingelheim (Barcelona) 2015
• Winner Project Think Big Youngs de Fundación Telefónica, 2013-14
Global challenges
The project “Música para Despertar” started 10 years ago, as a volunteer, together with the donation of 5 headphones and mp3 players. From the clinical practice of several years of volunteering, added to being able to live from small closely the reality of Senior Centers, and an extensive scientific analysis of the related literature.
Being able to arrive with very few resources to the same conclusions that later, in 2015, began to be confirmed worldwide. Getting to implement the tools optimally with different professionals, achieving a decrease in complicated behaviors, and improving the quality of life of the person with dementia.
The years of the Covid 19 pandemic have been a difficulty for the practical implementation, on-site training in service centers and on the other hand if it has served to develop and improve everything related to social networks, online courses .... dissemination and awareness in general.
Making a great effort to continue expanding and sharing tools, thus generating a faster transformation of care for people with dementia, as well as specialized centers, moving from more "hospital" centers to more "home" centers.
The same is true for specialized centers, moving from more "hospital-based" to more "home-based" centers.
Being able to arrive with very few resources to the same conclusions that later, in 2015, began to be confirmed worldwide. Getting to implement the tools optimally with different professionals, achieving a decrease in complicated behaviors, and improving the quality of life of the person with dementia.
The years of the Covid 19 pandemic have been a difficulty for the practical implementation, on-site training in service centers and on the other hand if it has served to develop and improve everything related to social networks, online courses .... dissemination and awareness in general.
Making a great effort to continue expanding and sharing tools, thus generating a faster transformation of care for people with dementia, as well as specialized centers, moving from more "hospital" centers to more "home" centers.
The same is true for specialized centers, moving from more "hospital-based" to more "home-based" centers.
Learning transferred to other parties
The complete “Música para Despertar” process is created to be transferable and replicable in an integral and optimal way; the results obtained coincide with the rest of the countries, scientific research and other approaches to this topic. Starting from a global analysis of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and how music can have an impact on people and those around them.
So far we have successfully achieved replicability in many countries, guiding in person, virtual and online; being worldwide references: Spain, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, France, Italy, Portugal, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
Focusing the possibilities in training more people in person and online, showing on the one hand the universal nature of this training, as well as the possibilities of benefiting the state and welfare of people with dementia and those around them.
Our tools are replicable from any professional, family or caregiver profile.
Likewise, they are applicable to different groups of beneficiaries:
• Elderly people without cognitive impairment
• People with age-related cognitive impairment
• People with mild cognitive impairment
• People with Alzheimer's disease
• People with Parkinson's disease
- People with vascular dementia
- And any person in a situation of physical dependence or with a state of mind susceptible to improvement.
In addition to training; implementation, observation, monitoring, follow-up, permanent modification so that the new model is as adapted as possible to the evolution of needs.
And of course it will be necessary to carry out the search of musical proposals according to each country or geographical area, for which we will also be of support, as well as being able to count on volunteers, towards a global database with regional songs, traditional, global and specific hits, etc.
So far we have successfully achieved replicability in many countries, guiding in person, virtual and online; being worldwide references: Spain, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, France, Italy, Portugal, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
Focusing the possibilities in training more people in person and online, showing on the one hand the universal nature of this training, as well as the possibilities of benefiting the state and welfare of people with dementia and those around them.
Our tools are replicable from any professional, family or caregiver profile.
Likewise, they are applicable to different groups of beneficiaries:
• Elderly people without cognitive impairment
• People with age-related cognitive impairment
• People with mild cognitive impairment
• People with Alzheimer's disease
• People with Parkinson's disease
- People with vascular dementia
- And any person in a situation of physical dependence or with a state of mind susceptible to improvement.
In addition to training; implementation, observation, monitoring, follow-up, permanent modification so that the new model is as adapted as possible to the evolution of needs.
And of course it will be necessary to carry out the search of musical proposals according to each country or geographical area, for which we will also be of support, as well as being able to count on volunteers, towards a global database with regional songs, traditional, global and specific hits, etc.
Keywords
Music
Alzheimer
Dementia
Love
Therapy
