UK to get first music therapy centre of excellence for people living with dementia

Greater Manchester is to become the UK's first centre of excellence for music therapy for dementia - in a bid to establish if the treatment can ease pressure on the NHS. More than £1m of funding has been committed to the project to offer more musical support to people living with dementia across all of Greater Manchester. There are more than 940,000 people in the UK who have dementia with one in 11 people over-65 being most affected.

' Sonia Roczniak-Gulzar, her other daughter, added: 'We've had some challenging times, over the last 18 months but we've managed to keep her out of hospital and she's coming every week apart from maybe one or two, when she's been unwell and she misses it.' Amina Hussain is the principal flute player with Manchester Camerata and also works as the charity's resident music therapist.

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