Music, a precious ally for our seniors

Music plays an essential role in supporting senior citizens. It helps to reduce stress and anxiety, by relaxing and calming, stimulating memory, particularly for people with cognitive problems or Alzheimer's disease, and encouraging mobility by encouraging movement through dance or simple music. What's more, music helps to break down isolation by creating spaces for sharing, laughter and complicity.

Music touches a deeply intimate part of each of us, awakening memories and buried emotions, and allowing us to rediscover a part of ourselves that is sometimes put to sleep by age or illness.

Concrete projects to help our elders

Aware of these benefits, we wanted to bring practical initiatives closer to the elderly, where they live.

These include:

👉 ‘All Together’: a programme of participatory concerts and intergenerational workshops, where music becomes a common language between residents, their families, carers and artists.
👉 ‘Gesang am Norden’: a project that celebrates the voices of the North and offers the elderly moments of collective song, in German and French, encouraging personal expression and a sense of belonging.

The aim of these projects is to put culture back at the heart of everyday life, to open windows of air and light into the routine, and above all to make hearts vibrate together.
 

Integrating music into the daily lives of our elderly is not a luxury – it's a necessity. It means offering them moments of joy, of connection, of life.
It also means recognising their history, their sensitivity and their humanity.

Sponsored by: Henry J and Erna D Leir Fondatioun

Photos by Laurent Sturm and Sébastien Grebille