For carers and households
When the listener isn't you.
Family carers. Partners through recovery. A parent helping a child fall asleep. Composing for someone else is a different design problem from composing for yourself — and the Companion plan is shaped for it. Honest about what the evidence supports. Honest about what we won't claim.
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What this is
Sessions you can compose for someone you support.
The Companion plan exists because dementia comfort and convalescent care aren't standard self-directed wellness use cases. You're composing for someone else — a parent in sundowning, a partner after surgery, a child who can't get into sleep — and the work has to bend toward them, not you.
The plan supports two listener profiles, includes the care-mode player (larger controls, predictable layout, optional carer note), and pairs with a more conservative composition posture for the cared-for profile by default.
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Why composition matters in care
Recommendation isn't enough.
Most wellness audio is a recommendation engine: fixed library, recommender, track. That's fine for a self-directed listener picking for themselves. It breaks down when you're a carer choosing for someone whose preferences shift by the hour.
A composed, intake-driven session lets you tune the listening to the actual moment — context (bedtime, focused rest, care companion), length (twenty minutes for short comfort, sixty for the evening), intent (settle racing thoughts, dementia comfort, ease the come-down from panic). The composition reforms as you choose, and the recording is a one-of-one for the person you're supporting.
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What the evidence supports
What music in dementia comfort actually does.
Cochrane reviews establish music-based interventions as effective adjunctive support for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia — agitation, restlessness, sundowning, care-resistance. The MIDDEL trial — roughly a thousand residents across six countries — is the largest dementia music-therapy RCT ever conducted.
We take that evidence base seriously. The dementia-comfort intent in the wizard maps to a conservative composition posture: gentler envelope shaping, narrower spectral range, no abrupt transitions, sleep-handoff close where the context calls for it. The science page grades the underlying claims and links the citations.
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What this isn't
Wellness comfort, not clinical treatment.
Soundscaper doesn't treat dementia or any clinical condition. We use the phrase “dementia comfort” rather than “dementia treatment” deliberately, and the same discipline applies to every care-context label on the site. The product is wellness-adjacent listening, regulated as such — not a medical device.
If the person you're caring for is in active mental-health crisis, please use the routes on the help page— Samaritans 116 123, NHS 111, Mind, Find a Helpline. Soundscaper can't help in crisis.
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Care mode
What changes when you use the carer profile.
- Conservative composition defaults for the cared-for profile — gentler envelope, fewer abrupt transitions, narrower spectral movement.
- Care-mode player on mobile — larger controls, predictable layout, optional carer note attached to the recording.
- Two listener profiles on one account — yours and one other — so your library and theirs stay distinct.
- Conservative cue defaults — phase guidance, midpoint gong, and five-minute closing cue are off by default for the cared-for profile; you can switch them on per session.
- Practical journal posture — pre- and post-session reflections are carer-friendly: brief, factual, oriented to what the listener seemed to need rather than to self-reflection.