Loss of the ‘Self’ as a Social and Ethical Challenge. Findings from the London ‘Music for Life’ Project
The following considerations describe the findings of a qualitative research project that accompanied a course of the Wigmore Hall Initiative Music for Life in a long-term study on music and dementia. The project succeeds in reconstructing a learning process that affects both musicians and caregivers and is able—at least selectively—to integrate people living with dementia. A learning process which captures the inter-professional team—creating “moments” that people with dementia also experience as highlights—could be observed in the successive experience levels ofestablishing‘ identity’, deepening ‘communication’, doing ‘participation’and opening the chance for ‘development’ within an astonishing “Community of Practice”.
