Question follow-through · 13862
Dementia: Music Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a social care strategy which includes support for the use of musical techniques for people living with dementia.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a social care strategy which includes support for the use of musical techniques for people living with dementia.
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2024
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s Quality Standard on Dementia, published in June 2019, recommends that therapeutic use of music be considered as a means of non-pharmacological intervention for people with dementia. Localities should...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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