Music and Memory Project
Support to develop a set of impact measurements
Project:
Music & Memory has two projects that require support for the development and implementation of a set of impact measurements.
Music & Memory has two projects that require support for the development and implementation of a set of impact measurements.
Project description:
There are two specific projects that would benefit from Pro Bono OR input:
- Project 1 (currently underway) Music & Memory in a care homes setting: Establishing appropriate impact and evaluation measures for the Music & Memory Programme in care homes.
- Project 2 (starting e.g. September) Music & Memory at Home pilot: A pilot to assess the effectiveness of the Music & Memory approach when used with individuals living with dementia in their own homes.
Music & Memory in a care homes setting: Music & Memory trains care home staff to create, use and manage playlists for people living with dementia. There is a need to establish impact and evaluation measures that can be used by care home staff in a highly time pressured environment.
Current success focuses on both the carer and the person living with dementia. In addition to the currently identified measures, anecdotal feedback will be collected verbally from those involved in the trial.
Music & Memory at Home pilot: Working in partnership with Carers Trust East Midlands, Music & Memory plans to execute a trial rollout of a personalised music programme to approximately 100 people living at home with dementia in the UK. The principal aim of the exercise is to refine a scalable approach to programme delivery in order to allow for the most effective large scale deployment from 2020.
This will be achieved through three sequential pilot phases in order to allow iterative review and refinement of the rollout approach. In each phase:
- Online training materials will be used to train carers in the Music & Memory approach.
- The personalised music programme will be made available to the person living with dementia.
- Qualitative and quantitative feedback will be obtained in order to iteratively refine the approach and evaluate overall success.
Learnings from the pilot will inform the wider rollout planned from 2020. There will be a specific focus on effectiveness of the programme in a home setting, the extent to which the Music & Memory techniques are used after an extended period and, crucially, the scalability of the rollout approach.
Pro Bono OR could add significant value around the proper assessment of the pilot’s effectiveness. Specifically:
- Selection of the most appropriate success measures given the pilot aims (and taking into account practicality of collection)
- Refinement of these measures as the pilot progresses
- Analysis of the results of the pilot in order to draw conclusions that will guide the wider rollout.
Knowledge/Skills required: Evaluation of performance measurement systems, Design of data collection systems.
Time commitment:
Project 1 estimate 4-5 days over the next 6 months
Project 2 – similar, starting September (tbc) – could be a different volunteer
Location: Mostly remote working, but a face to face meeting at the start of the project and a workshop to agree viable measurements would be required in London EC1A 9PT.
If you feel you are able to offer your assistance please complete the application form and return along with your CV to amy.hughes@theorsociety.com by 16th August.
The OR Society fully supports equal opportunities. As such, we welcome applications from the partially sighted or blind, or those with disabilities.
Information about the organisation:
Music and Memory is a non-profit organisation, who's work is rooted in extensive neuroscience research. They bring personalised music into the lives of older people living with cognitive impairment through digital music technology, vastly improving quality of life. Music and Memory train nursing home staff and other health and care professionals, as well as family caregivers, in how to create and provide personalised playlists using MP3 players that enable those struggling with Alzheimer’s, dementia and other cognitive and physical challenges to reconnect with the world through music-triggered memories.
For further information about the Pro Bono OR scheme, please visit: www.theorsociety.com/Probono or email ProBonoOR@theorsociety.com
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