Playlist

The Playlist for Life app uses Spotify to help people living with dementia find and listen to the most meaningful music for them and then organise it to affect their mood. Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is researching how this can be used to help improve care for people with dementia. There is growing evidence that 'personally meaningful music' - the kind that takes you back to a time, person or place whenever you hear it - can be a powerful tool for people living with dementia. Playlist for Life was founded by writer and broadcaster Sally Magnusson in 2013 to bring the power of personal music to everyone with dementia in the UK. Potential researchers will need an iOS smartphone or tablet (iPhone, iPads, iPod Touch) and will be given a Spotify account that they can keep afterwards, to keep listening to their music even when the experiment is over.