Songs & Smiles

Our mission is keeping families connected during the Alzheimer's journey. Our programs and activities are designed to: 1) Increase awareness of the challenges faced by families when a loved one has Alzheimer’s. 2) Help people living with Alzheimer’s better connect with families, friends, and their own joy-filled memories. 3) Provide practical help and encouragement to caregivers and families.

We focus on care, not the cure. We focus on practical and positive care. We focus on supporting primary caregivers by involving family, friends, and communities. And we focus on joy. We know the pain and frustration of caring for a loved one who has Alzheimer's, but we are committed to helping families find joy during the Alzheimer's journey.

Online initiatives (website and social media) teach and equip families and friends, encouraging them to 1) Grieve along the way, recognizing real loss. 2) Rest, realizing and accepting some things aren’t fixable. 3) Invite family and friends to join the journey. 4) Connect through songs and smiles. 5) Celebrate life with love and laughter.

We are developing educational workshops and magazines to further support caregivers and families.

Interactive singalongs connect people who have Alzheimer’s with their own joy-filled memories as well as with their families and friends. Our singalongs also provide moments of respite for caregivers and families.

In the future, we will plan community events to increase awareness of the unique challenges faced by families caring for a loved one who has Alzheimer’s. Each event will feature family-friendly music and comedy presentations and will be supported by multi-channel marketing campaigns.

We feel we are off to a good start, though our programming has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We had been leading singalongs in local memory care facilities, but we have shifted our attention to digital initiatives. We have successfully launched our website and have added a variety of articles and stories. We received especially positive feedback on our article titled "Talking With Someone Who Has Alzheimer's." We have produced and posted 10 singalong song videos. We have recently licensed a number of additional recordings, and we will soon produce 30-45 minute singalong shows. Our next major project after that will be the production of our first magazine, which we hope to launch in the first half of 2021.