Music in Hospitals & Care visits Royal Edinburgh Hospital’s Canaan and Fairmile wards around once a month, where soprano Daniela Hathaway draws on her extensive experience working with people living with dementia to create an interactive live music experience.
This Student Volunteering Week, we hear from St Andrews University student Tatenda, who volunteered with us last year in Scotland.
Music in Hospitals & Care are excited to be working with the University of Edinburgh, specifically the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Lived Experience of Dementia.
Caroline Barker has been a Senior Charge Nurse in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh’s Intensive Care and High Dependency Units for over 25 years. Our musicians have recently been able to go back into critical wards at the hospital for the first time since before the pandemic.
Our ambassador talks about about her volunteering with Music in Hospitals & Care and the impact that it made on a group she spoke to recently.
Our Musician Spotlight for December is Bruce Davies, who joined Music in Hospitals & Care in 1997. His wide repertoire and use of reminiscence have made him a hit amongst older audiences across Scotland.
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