As the elderly population grows, and with it the number of people living with real frailty, healthcare alone is not enough: something also needs to counter the isolation, apathy and loss of relationships that so often come with it. Music is known to support memory, language, attention and emotional regulation, even in people living with cognitive decline, making it a genuinely useful, non-medical tool for care.
The project
"La Musica che Cura" brings ten interactive concerts into residential care homes across the Turin area, with each performance shaped by close collaboration with facility staff and adapted to residents' own physical and cognitive needs: pacing, volume and delivery all adjusted to keep the experience accessible and genuinely respectful.
Rather than treating residents as a passive audience, the project turns each concert into a relational intervention: something built with the people who will experience it, not just performed for them, and something that draws in staff and family members alongside the residents themselves.
Who the project is for
The project's direct beneficiaries are around 500 residents across the participating care homes, who take part in the ten concerts.
Its impact reaches further, to over 100 facility staff, around 80 family members, and more than 300 hours of volunteering contributed to bringing the concerts to life.
Project name: La musica che cura
Proposing organisation: AMICI DELLA MUSICA DI TORINO APS
Area of intervention: Health & Welfare
Country: Italy