People with dementia can feel isolated with the loss of language skills. Music therapy can reduce anxiety and stress, and enhance emotional wellbeing through verbaland non-verbal expression, increased social interaction and cognitive stimula tion. It can encourage the use of knowledge and abilities stored in the long-term memory such as lyrics from familiar songs, f and encourage listening, singing, move ment and music making (BAMT, 2012). d Music therapy is being increasingly used as s a non-pharmacological intervention in the k care of people with dementia and their family or carers, with the National Institute t for Health and ence encouraging d referrals for those experiencing increased i d agitation (NICE,20o6)