UK Music & Music for Dementia’s Power of Music report

Major New Report Outlines Plan to Harness the Power of Music to Transform Health, Wellbeing and Communities   

Music for Dementia and UK Music have joined forces to publish a new report, which outlines a blueprint to use music to help transform communities and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing. 

The Power of Music report makes a series of recommendations about how music can be used to improve the lives of those dealing with illnesses such as dementia, depression, loneliness and other debilitating conditions at a time when health services are under unprecedented pressure. 

Its publication follows a year-long study by UK Music, the collective voice of the UK music industry, and Music for Dementia, the leading health and music campaign, supported by The Utley Foundation.  

The aim of the study was to fully explore the important role music plays in people’s lives and how it helped them cope during the pandemic and what more we can do with music to help us recover and rehabilitate from COVID-19. 

Music for Dementia and UK Music hope the report and its recommendations will pave the way for the Government to work with health professionals, charities, and the music sector to capitalise on the positive changes the power of music can deliver.  

Read the report here.   

The report sets out how music supports the mental and physical health and wellbeing of millions of people. It also outlines how much greater use of music should be made in social prescribing and how it should be considered a key tool in public health strategies.