The University of Vechta launches website with educational videos to help teach people with dementia play musical instruments as part of a collaborative project

21/09/2020

On 21 September, collaborators at the University of Vechta (Germany), who partake in the European project “ReKuTe – Partizipative Wissenschaft für Region, Kultur und Technik”, launched a new website. The website offers about 80 videos in which website visitors can track violin lessons that were carried out with a person with mild-stage dementia and her teacher Anke Feierabend throughout a year. The length of each video varies between one to six minutes, each is accompanied by elaborate explanations. The website (German) can be found here: www.musikunddemenz.de