Support area
Care companion
Comfort for the person you're caring for. A reset for you at the end of the day.
For someone you're caring for — and for the carer at the end of the day. Dementia comfort. Sundowning support. Convalescence. Procedure preparation. The carer's own reset. The listening is built for the person you're caring for, and also for you. The clinical evidence base for music-based interventions in dementia is the strongest in the catalogue, and the compositional posture here is the most conservative we make. The Cochrane review and the MIDDEL trial are cited in full on the science page.
Who this is for
Concrete situations, not diagnoses.
Caring for someone with dementia
Sundowning hours
Hospital or recovery contexts
Care-home and dementia-day-centre settings
Pre-procedure or pre-appointment preparation
The carer's own end-of-day reset
What listening looks like
What you'll actually hear, in order.
For dementia comfort and sundowning: nature substrate, sustained drone, slow harmonic field, sparse melodic motif as familiar-feeling presence. No headphone induction. No AM music. No rhythmic stimulation — none of those have support in this population, and any can introduce distress. Carer-mode posture means longer phases, no surprise transitions, minimal variation throughout. For procedure preparation, the perioperative binaural-beat evidence base permits the gateway. For carer-stress reset, the composition is the standard anxiety-stress stack delivered to the carer themselves.
What the evidence supports
The evidence, graded honestly.
The Cochrane review of music-based therapeutic interventions in dementia (van der Steen et al. 2024 update) and the MIDDEL trial together form the strongest single evidence base in the Soundscaper catalogue. Bradt et al. 2021 Cochrane review of music in cancer-related symptoms supports the convalescence framing. The perioperative binaural-beat meta-analysis (15 RCTs, SMD ≈ −1.38) supports procedure preparation. Full citations at /science.
Read the full evidence grading at /science →Which techniques are involved
Which techniques the wizard reaches for here.
Every session in this area combines the following techniques. None is mandatory; the wizard adapts based on your length, whether headphones are in, and what you said you'd like to hear. Each has its own page on /methods.
What we don't claim
Where the listening stops being our claim to make.
Soundscaper is supportive listening. Not dementia treatment. Not a substitute for clinical dementia care. Not curative. The Cochrane evidence supports adjunctive supportive use. We make no claims about cognitive improvement, disease modification, prevention, or progression slowing.