5th Dementia Band

https://www.musicmendsminds.org/

Music Mends Minds, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA

https://www.musicmendsminds.org/

Music Mends Minds is an 11-year-old, LA-based, global nonprofit that creates free music therapy and engagement groups for seniors, their caregivers and loved ones. For those with neurological challenges like Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, music might be their last bridge to remembering who they were, who they loved and what they shared together. Roughly one third of Americans over eighty will face this, two-thirds of them women. Most who forget who they married will still be able to sing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

Today, MMM touches over 5,000 lives monthly through our global in-person music groups, thrice-weekly virtual music therapy sessions, live-streamed 5th
Dementia Band rehearsals and a research-themed podcast, “Music is Medicine, Ask the Experts.” And as we focus now on building music groups in communities historically left behind by new paradigms in health and wellness, we’re dedicated to establishing music therapy and engagement for seniors as a Public Health Initiative that thrives at the epicenter of Arts, Health & Equity.