JoyPhone Dementia Project

Music therapy has been found to be beneficial for treating symptoms and improving the quality of life for people living with dementia. The JoyPhone Community Project is an initiative that aims to use this by creating a device, the JoyPhone, that transforms a vintage rotary phone into a portable jukebox that plays classic tunes from the person's past to tap into their long-term memory. The project's goal is to improve the quality of life for seniors with dementia in Singapore by giving JoyPhones to caregivers and nursing homes for free and also teaching people how to construct their own JoyPhones. The project relies on support from the public to source the necessary rotary telephones.