In October 2025, SOUND went to the Alzheimer Europe Conference in Bologna with a scientific poster on the outcomes of the intervention on older people with dementia, available at the section “Scientific evidence”. Sara Santini also presented the Manifesto of the International
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In September 2024 Sara Santini and Sabrina Quattrini conducted a SOUND workshop in Senigallia (Ancona, Italy), as part of the Alzheimer Festival. The method was applied to around fifteen elderly people with dementia and was a great success.
Sound project final conference – Music for Dementia-Friendly Communities. Wednesday 19th June, 3-6PM Radisson Red, Rue d’Idalie 35, 1050 Brussels
SOUND Newsletter 3 – June 2024 SOUND is an Erasmus+ funded project which aims to develop a training curriculum of active and passive music-making activities targeted at social and healthcare professionals and informal carers involved in dementia care. The project also aims to
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The Multiplier final Event of the European study ‘SOUND’ (https://soundeuproject.eu), a non- pharmacological intervention for dementia based on music funded by the EU programme Erasmus+ and coordinated by Dott.ssa Sara Santini belonging to the National Institute of Health and Science on Aging-
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Si è svolto il 14 maggio 2024, presso il Teatrino del Piano, ad Ancona, l’evento conclusivo dello studio europeo “SOUND”, un intervento non farmacologico per la demenza basato sulla musica finanziato dal programma comunitario Erasmus+ e coordinato dall’Istituto di ricovero e cura
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A quasi-experimental mixed-method pilot study to check the efficacy of the “SOUND” active and passive music-based intervention on mental wellbeing and residual cognition of older people with dementia and dementia professionals’ burnout: a research protocol Authors: ‘Sara Santini1†’ | Alessandra Merizzi1*† | Ioana Caciula2
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Training Social and health care prOfessionals in mUsic-based therapeutic iNterventions to support older people with Dementia (SOUND) SOUND is an Erasmus+ funded project which aims to develop a training curriculum of active and passive music-making activities targeted at social and healthcare professionals and
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The experimental phase of SOUND method will begin shortly! The interventionwill be implementedin Italy, in an Alzheimer day-care centre, and in Portugal and Romania, in older people care facilities hosting people with dementia, involving a total of 45 people with dementia and
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SOUND training pilot phase has been successfully completed. The training took place between June and July 2023 in Italy, Portugal and Romania, involving health workers and musicians (29 people in Italy,17 in Portugal and Romania), who got to learn about and put
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