Music in Mind Remote (MIMR) - Digital Delivery of Music Activities to People Living with Dementia

这项提案是由曼彻斯特大学和曼彻斯特Camerata最近共同创立的一家新公司Music in Mind Remote(MIMR)领导的一个为期两年的项目。MIMR的成立专门为了扩大两个组织十多年来一直提供的联合工作和IP，使用基于音乐疗法的活动来帮助改善疗养院痴呆症患者的健康结果和生活质量。在过去的12年里，曼彻斯特Camerata为痴呆症患者提供了基于音乐治疗的活动。他们独特的方法使用即兴创作来帮助痴呆症患者表达自己并与他人交流。这些课程有助于减少挫败感，建立新的联系，并对日常生活产生深远的影响。但在养老院与音乐家面对面的活动只能接触到英国85万痴呆症患者中非常有限的人数。这是因为工作人员并不总是拥有支持活动的技能，而且提供这些活动的费用非常昂贵。这就是为什么我们决定建立一个平台，能够在线提供痴呆症节目的音乐。这一解决方案将包括对护理专业人员的在线培训和在线课程交付。曼彻斯特Camerata已经与曼彻斯特大学密切合作，后者共同创立了新的MIMR公司。他们将把知识产权授权给MIM公司，以支持该程序的交付，以确保我们开发的产品真正满足痴呆症患者和疗养院提供者的需求。我们还与一家名为Social Sense的组织合作，该组织已经有一款应用程序供痴呆症患者使用。通过在现有平台上构建我们的产品，我们认为我们将能够接触到并帮助更多的人。在项目结束时，我们将测试有效的产品，准备在疗养院和社区环境中使用。

This proposal is for a 2-year project led by Music in Mind Remote (MIMR) a new company recently co-founded by University of Manchester and Manchester Camerata.MIMR has specifically been founded to scale the joint work and IP both organisations have been delivering for more than a decade using music therapy-based activity to help improve health outcomes and quality of life for people living with dementia in care home settings.For the last 12 years, Manchester Camerata has delivered music therapy-based activity to people living with dementia. Their unique approach uses improvisation to help people living with dementia express themselves and communicate with others. These sessions help reduce frustration, enable new connections to be made, and have a profound effect on daily life.But delivering face-to-face activities with musicians in care homes can only ever reach a very limited number of the 850,000 who have dementia in the UK.This is because staff do not always have the skills to support the activities, and it is very expensive to provide.That is why we have decided to build a platform that can deliver our music for dementia programmes online. This solution will incorporate online training for care professionals, and online delivery of programmes.Manchester Camerata already works in close partnership with the University of Manchester, which has jointly founded the new MIMR company. They will license IP to the MIM company to support delivery of this programme, making sure that what we develop really meets the needs of people with dementia and providers in care homes.We are also working with an organisation called Social Sense, which already has an app used by people with dementia. By building our product within an existing platform we think we will be able to reach, and help, more people.By the end of the project we will have tested, effective product ready to be used in care home and community settings.