How much does Memory Care Music cost?

$19.99 per song, delivered by email within 24 hours. There is no subscription. Families often build a small collection one song at a time. Memory care and assisted living communities ordering for multiple residents can email hello@soundcard.ai.

Can a memory care community order songs for its residents?

Yes. Communities that want songs for more than one resident should email hello@soundcard.ai so it can be set up properly rather than as separate one-off orders. Each resident gets a song that belongs to them alone, which staff can play during activities, one-to-one time, or the late afternoon.

How long does it take to get the song?

The finished song arrives by email within 24 hours as an MP3 that plays on any phone, tablet, or speaker. You keep the recording, so it can be shared with the rest of the family and kept afterward.

Memory Care Music

A song built around one person, and no one else

Q: What is Memory Care Music?

Memory Care Music is an original song written and produced around one person living with memory loss. It is built from the music of their youth, in their language, with the names, places, and routines of their own life in the lyrics. It is a personalized music engagement tool, not music therapy and not a medical treatment.

Q: Do I need to know their diagnosis to order?

No. Nothing in the form asks for a diagnosis. The song is built around the person's life rather than around a condition, so it comes together the same way whatever the cause of the memory loss.

We write and produce an original song for someone living with memory loss: the music of their youth, in their language, with the names, places, and routines of their own life in the words. For families at home and for memory care communities.

$19.99 per song · delivered by email within 24 hours · no subscription

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Start where you are

People arrive here in very different situations, so the useful thing is to point you at the right next step rather than one long page.

You want to know whether this actually helps What the published research on music and dementia does and does not support, with every source linked, plus how Alzheimer's fits under the dementia umbrella. Read the evidence You are caring for someone at home Tell us about their era, their people, their places, and anything to leave out. The form guides you question by question, and half a page of real specifics is enough. Start their song You run a memory care or assisted living community Songs for more than one resident are set up together rather than as separate orders, so staff end up with something that belongs to each resident alone. Email us about your community You are buying this as a gift See how Memory Care Music sits alongside a single custom song and a six-song album, with what each one costs. See all products

If one of these is your situation

The visits with her have gone quiet What to bring into the room when conversation has stopped being the thing that works, including for grandchildren who find visits hard. Read this one You are buying a gift and nothing fits Why the usual gifts stop working when someone has Alzheimer's, and what a gift that is about them rather than for them looks like. Read this one The late afternoon is the hardest part of your day What families and care staff already reach for at that hour, and how to have one person's own song ready before the day turns. Read this one They are in a home and you are far away How a recording works in a nursing home or memory care unit, what staff can play, and how a community orders for several residents. Read this one

What makes it different from a playlist

A playlist plays records that already exist. We make a new song about them.

Their sound. The genre, instruments, and language of the music they grew up on.
Their people. The name they answer to, their spouse, their children and grandchildren.
Their places. The hometown, the country, the street, the church.
Their days. The work they did, the kitchen, the garden, the shop, the routines.
Their words. The phrases they always say, that the family can finish for them.
What to leave out. Anything that upsets them stays out of the song.

What the research supports

A 2018 Cochrane systematic review found that music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia in institutional care could reduce depressive symptoms and overall behavioural problems, and could improve emotional wellbeing and quality of life. Those studies largely tested interventions delivered by trained therapists, so they support the category rather than any one product. SoundCard.ai is a personalized music engagement tool, and we make no claim that it treats dementia.

Read the full evidence, with every source linked

How it works

Tell us about them. The form asks for their era and music, their people and places, and anything to avoid.
We write and produce the song, in the style and language of the music they grew up with.
It arrives by email within 24 hours, ready to play on any phone, tablet, or speaker.

You keep the recording, so it can go around the family group chat, into the car on the way to a visit, or onto a speaker in their room. Families often start with one song and add more over time.

For memory care communities

One song per resident, rather than one playlist for the floor.

Personalized playlist programs are already familiar in a lot of communities, and this works from the same principle with one difference: the song is written for that resident, so it is theirs and no one else's. Staff can play it during activities, in one-to-one time, in the late afternoon, or on a difficult morning.

If you want songs for more than one resident, email hello@soundcard.ai and we will set it up properly instead of running it through as separate one-off orders. Family members are usually the best source for the details, and we can give you a simple sheet to collect them.

Common questions

Do I need to know their diagnosis?

No. Nothing in the form asks for one. The song is built around the person's life rather than around a condition, so it comes together the same way whatever the cause of the memory loss.

What if I do not know what music they liked?

That is common, and you know more than you think. Their birth year alone gets us close, because it tells us what was on the radio when they were young. Add where they grew up and their faith or language and we can build from there.

What if the song is not right?

Tell us what missed and we will rework it. Getting a name, a place, or a language wrong matters more here than in any other song we make, so we would rather fix it than have you settle.

Is this music therapy?

No. Music therapy is a regulated profession delivered by board-certified music therapists, and we are not that. This is a personalized music engagement tool. It is not a medical treatment, and it is meant to sit alongside the care your loved one already receives, not replace any part of it.

SoundCard.ai Memory Care Music is a personalized music engagement tool for dementia care. It is not music therapy and not a medical treatment. Always work with your loved one's doctor and care team. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. Research cited on this page describes the category of music-based interventions and is not a claim about outcomes from this product.

Start with one song

Tell us who they were before the diagnosis, and we will write it back to them. $19.99, in your inbox within 24 hours.

Create their song