‘MUSIC IN HOSPITALS’ BRINGS MUSIC TO RESIDENTS’ EARS
5/13/2011 8:50 AM EST
The residents of Bupa’s Brynhyfryd care home in Builth Wells, Powys will be serenaded by singer Margaret Ferguson and pianist Jonathan Ellis, on Tuesday 17 May at 11.00am.
The concert has been organised by Music in Hospitals (MiH), a leading charity that provides professionally performed live music in health and care settings throughout the UK. It’s ‘Musical Memories in Care Homes’ project offers live music from a variety of performers, styles and instruments to care home residents. Concerts so far have been hugely successful with a variety of resident groups, including people with dementia.
The charity’s chief executive, Diana Greenman, says: “All I can say, from the bottom of my heart, is a great big thank you to everyone at Bupa for helping Music in Hospitals bring so much pleasure to those people who need it most of all.”
Bupa Care Homes’ Community Affairs Consultant, Siobhan Drane, adds: “We’re delighted that the project is going so well and that our residents are really benefiting from these live performances. We look forward to the continued success of this project and support of this great charity.”
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Bupa Care Services
Bupa Care Services runs 305 nursing and residential homes in the UK and cares for almost 18,500 people. Our homes are open to everyone – with over 70 percent of UK residents receiving state funding. We are the only company to offer Alzheimer’s Society-trained Dementia Champions in our UK specialist care homes and over 25% of our beds in the UK are registered for specialist dementia care. Bupa Care Services employs over 27,000 people and owns care homes in Spain, Australia, and New Zealand
For more information, visit
www.bupa.co.uk/care-homes.
Bupa Group
Bupa’s purpose is to help people lead longer, healthier, happier lives. A leading international healthcare group, we offer personal and company health insurance, run care homes for older people and hospitals, and provide workplace health services, health assessments and chronic disease management services, including health coaching, and home healthcare.
With no shareholders, we invest our profits to provide more and better healthcare. We are committed to making quality, patient-centred, affordable healthcare more accessible in the areas of wellness, chronic disease management and ageing.
Employing nearly 52,000 people, Bupa has operations around the world, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, New Zealand and the USA, as well as Hong Kong, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, India, China and across Latin America.
For more information, visit
www.bupa.com.