Amplifying Voices and Memories Through Music and Storytelling in Care Homes with Gráinne Hope, David Hope, Fiona Mc Auley and Brian Lawlor

Creative Brainwaves returns for a third series of talks and workshops, exploring how our engagement in various creative arts can benefit our brain health. The sessions include brain health specialists, therapists, people living with and working with those affected by acquired brain injury, and a range of artists, musicians and writers. This series is curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin.

Grainne Hope is a professional cellist, founder and Artistic Director of Music & Health Ireland, designing and managing music programmes in healthcare. She is also an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health (GBHI) and Chair with the Arts and Health Coordinators Ireland (www.musicandhealthireland.ie). 

David Hope is a professional musician, songwriter, recording artist, music educator, Music & Health practitioner. He has released five studio albums and has ten years’ experience as a music and health practitioner, leading various projects with people of all ages.

Fiona Mc Auley is Activity Coordinator in the Hollybrook Lodge Residential Care Unit, Dublin.

Brian Lawlor MD, FRCPI,FRCPychMRIA is a professor of old age psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, and Site Director of GBHI at Trinity. He is a geriatric psychiatrist with an interest in dementia, late-life depression, loneliness and brain health. Brian has worked for over 30 years on developing services and delivering care to people with dementia.

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