This App Gives Seniors A Reason To Sing

Earlier this month during Techweek DC, AARP hostedan event at its Hatchery incubator, and the emphasis was on startups working with the aging population. One such company was SingFit, a music therapy application that won AARP’s Dementia Care Technology and Innovationaward, and uses technology to get seniors moving and singing in order to improve their cognitive health.

The company developed an app that allows facility caregivers or people trained in using the program to select songs from different themed playlists that older singers might better remember, according to Rachel Francine, SingFit’s cofounder and CEO, who was at the event. Their technology is also customized to provide a track called LyricCoach, which speaks the lyrics to the song just before they should be sung to prompt the older singers on what they should sing, said Andy Tubman, another cofounder and Chief Clinical Officer, who was at the event to present SingFit. This technology may sound like it disrupts the song, but it allows singers with vision problems or dementia to still be able to participate, the company’s website explains.

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