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Dr Jennifer MacRitchie @jenmacritchie

#UKRIFLF at University of Sheffield. Music | Engineering | Cognitive Science | New music tech for dementia | Music, Health & Wellbeing. My views.

Joined November 2015
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3 Jul 2025
Save the date - the young-onset group @ageuksheffield have created and curated a set of powerful artworks not to be missed. See the exhibition at Hillsborough pavilion 19-20 July. #dementia @ShefHealthspan @sheffielduni
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28 May 2025
Our co-produced film is here! People living with young-onset #dementia are individuals with a variety of musical tastes & needs: ageuk.org.uk/sheffield/about… @ageuksheffield @age_uk @DementiaUK @Arts4Dementia @MusicforDemUK @NASPTweets @UKRI_News @DementiaFriends @CDANArts @UCSFMDRN
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8 Apr 2025
New paper out in PLoS One with @jenmacritchie, Roger Dean, and @KateStevArtsSci. Part of our ARC DP at @MARCSInstitute this looked at older adult musical sophistication over 12 months of training and 6 month follow up. Improvisation led to biggest gains: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Objective demonstration and quantitation of musical learning in older adult novices across a...

This work aimed to objectively (mainly computationally) measure the extent to which 68 older adult novices developed specific musical abilities. The participants learned aural and keyboard performa...

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Dementia Community@JDementiaCare
30 Jan 2025
The January/February issue of the Journal of Dementia Care is out now! If you're a subscriber, you can login to the website to read it now! journalofdementiacare.co.uk/… journalofdementiacare.co.uk/… If you're not a subscriber you can sign up here: journalofdementiacare.co.uk/…
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Dr Clarissa Giebel 🇪🇺 🇩🇪@ClarissaGiebel
29 Jan 2025
Want to join our research group? If you are a carer for someone with #dementia or live with #dementia, and live in the North West of England, join our #Equadem network as 1 of 2 Public Advisor Researchers for 4 years! my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui…
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Dementia Community@JDementiaCare
20 Dec 2024
Dementia Diaries, a project run by @Innov_Dementia, has made a renewed call for people living with #dementia to become Dementia Diarists.  Wayne has made this film to promote Dementia Diaries: buff.ly/3VLtqom  Read More: buff.ly/37JLOEL
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28 Nov 2024
🚨Sharing our new paper rethinking the goals of music activities for people living with #dementia to support joint agency, selfhood & couplehood. Includes how #music tech can play a supportive role 🎶🎚️ @tuosmusic @ShefHealthspan @renee_timmers sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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We're at #UKDC2024 with our musical devices co-designed with people living with dementia. We aim to support agency, creativity and relationships through easy-to-use devices. Come try them out 🎶 @JDementiaCare @ShefHealthspan @tuosmusic
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Read about our work with residential care partners @sheffcare and @FionaPritchard at Colton Care in the new issue of JDC @JDementiaCare, and come hear Jon and Fiona speak about this at 3.30 in Hall 5 at #UKDC2024
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Excited for @JDementiaCare Dementia Congress this month! Our music, dementia, technology team explores the potential for technology to support people living with dementia in interacting with music, focusing on agency and creativity. @tuosmusic @mike_neo player.sheffield.ac.uk/event…
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Watch our friends put music into action! 👇 🎶 🎚 With carefully co-designed tools, people living with dementia, friends and family can interact with and make music themselves. Watch here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/event… @tuosmusic @ShefHealthspan @UKRI_News @DarnallWB @SACMHA1

Music, Dementia, Technology | The University of Sheffield Player

How we can harness emerging technologies to boost opportunities for older adults living with dementia to interact with music?

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Hear more behind the research, the tools, and the wonderful community groups helping us envision new ways of making music together. Darnall Well Being with Jo van Levesy, Fran Arnold and Sheffield Memory Hub with Carl Case in partnership with SACMHA Health & Social Care.
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Happy to see our article about music technology co-designed with people living with dementia republished for the SHAPE issue 🎶 @tuosmusic @UKRI_News @ShefHealthspan
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14 Oct 2024
In this special issue of Futurum we're celebrating all things #SHAPE! Prof Julia Black (@SHAPEinSchools) explains the importance of social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy. Drama teacher Anne Dunkerley (@guiseleyschool) highlights the power of the arts. Prof Louise Archer (@ASPIRESscience) examines the influences on students’ education and career aspirations. They, and the researchers we work with, are inspiring students to SHAPE the future! futurumcareers.com/SHAPE-iss…
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Deepness Dementia Media@Deepnessdement1
26 Sep 2024
Hi all here is a short video about dementia the musical pleas share and Comment vimeo.com/1012049089/8b2ce06…

Dementia: the Musical (About the Show)

This is "Dementia: the Musical (About the Show)" by Neoneight on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Music Teacher@MusicTeacherMag
22 Jul 2024
A new project developed by @TheOHMITrust and @BirmCons is giving young disabled young musicians the opportunity to play in ensembles alongside their able-bodied peers, reaping mutual benefits ⬇️ musicteachermagazine.co.uk/n…
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