MusicMendsMinds is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded to serve seniors and patients afflicted with PTSD, cognitive decline, and neurodegenerative disease including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, dementia, traumatic brain injury, and stroke, for which there is currently no cure. Our vision is to build musical support groups in an effort to use music as “medicine for the mind”, while creating social support networks crucial to our members’ wellbeing, and providing a joyful outcome for the patients, their families, and caregivers. Our Organization is two years old and we are growing quickly and we have recently launched a total of 7 bands, including our "Band of Heroes" on the campus of the Los Angeles Veterans Affairs in the "Home for Heroes", an inpatient mental health facility. Our mission includes an intergenerational component, which brings local student volunteers and musical students to play and rehearse with our senior band members. This fosters a valuable relationship where the seniors can mentor the students, for mutual empowerment and engagement. Recent research demonstrates that in spite of the disease processes, music storage remains intact for these neurodegenerative patients and can act as a alternate avenue of communication as well as being a possible preventative strategy for the delay of cognitive changes and decline. Statistically, we are facing an increasing pandemic of neurological disease and dementia as the population of the US ages, causing cost-containment as well as secondary health issues due to care-taking responsibilities. MusicMendsMinds is at the forefront of providing a unique and novel service, while pursuing a scientific component that will help advance our mission and spread the healing powers of music to all those who need it.