Familiar music, stories, voices and sounds can entertain, soothe, provide orientation and bring back memories. That’s why we’ve gathered free content for seniors here: music for relaxing and remembering, audiobooks, readings, podcasts and radio stations. Everything can be listened to on a smartphone, tablet or computer, or transferred to hörbert.
Here’s how to find your way around:
Tip: Listening without technical hurdles. All the content on this page also works on hörbert for seniors: large buttons, no display and no follow-up costs. Discover hörbert for seniors
Our podcast search accesses an external database containing podcasts on a wide range of topics – depending on individual interests or needs. To find suitable content, we recommend using specific search terms such as: “seniors,” “memories,” “history,” “news,” “crime,” “culture,” “contemporary witnesses,” “audiobook,” or similar. Once the results list appears, click on a podcast to open its detail page and obtain the direct link to the selected episode or series. The content can be listened to immediately or, if desired, added to hörbert using Browser Set Mode.
You can also select your preferred language in the search. This is helpful when looking for content in your native language or when familiar voices and sounds from earlier stages of life are important.
Podcasts can inform, soothe, and stimulate – making them a valuable part of a structured and fulfilling everyday life.
Here you will find blog articles in which we present selected, worthwhile podcasts to listen to. Short, inspiring recommendations that help you discover engaging content for the whole family.
m4d Radio is a free internet radio station that was created as part of the “Music for Dementia” campaign and offers music specifically for people living with dementia, as well as for their relatives and caregivers.
This station broadcasts around the clock and includes several thematic channels featuring music from different decades, designed to awaken memories and encourage positive emotions. Familiar melodies and songs from past times can be especially calming for people with dementia and older adults, strengthening emotional well-being and helping to activate language and memories.
You can easily listen to m4d Radio on any internet-enabled device – on a smartphone, tablet, computer, or via hörbert. These radio channels offer a wonderful way to integrate music as a source of joy, relaxation, and remembrance into everyday life.
Our web radio search accesses a large database of radio stations – ranging from music programs and cultural or spoken-word content to regional broadcasters. You can search directly for specific stations or, if a familiar radio station from earlier years comes to mind, simply enter part of its name. Other search terms, such as “oldies,” also work.
After selecting a station, you will receive a direct link for playback. The radio can be listened to immediately on a smartphone, tablet, or computer, or added to hörbert using Browser Set Mode.
Music and radio voices can convey trust and a sense of security, have a calming effect, and create a feeling of being at home.
Recommended websites with free content for seniors.
Here you’ll find a selection of trustworthy websites offering free audio content – for example music, relaxation music, readings, audiobooks and historical recordings.
This content is especially well suited for being deliberately selected, downloaded and made available long-term.
hörbert enables not only playback, but also recording of audio content. For example, you can record radio programmes, music or content from a Bluetooth transmission and store them permanently.
Thanks to the built-in microphone, you can also create your own recordings. This offers many individual possibilities: personal messages from relatives, read-aloud texts, prayers, songs or familiar voices. Such recordings can provide support, comfort and create orientation – especially in challenging situations.
hörbert helps to preserve meaningful sounds. They remain intact, are easily accessible and can be listened to again and again – as a reliable companion in everyday life.
Smartphones and tablets are hard for many older people to use: tiny icons, menus, updates. hörbert is different. Just press a button and your favourite music, audiobook or radio starts playing. Relatives can load the content onto it beforehand. Personalised listening content awakens memories, encourages singing along and brings joy into everyday life:
Under the “Downloads” tab we have collected websites that offer audiobooks, readings and music for free download. The podcast search will also lead you to stories, eyewitness accounts and radio plays.
Familiar music is often the most soothing: songs from one’s own youth, folk songs or calm instrumental music. Especially for people with dementia there is m4d Radio, which plays music from various decades around the clock.
Downloaded MP3 files are conveniently transferred to the memory card via a browser, without any other software. You add radio stations in the Browser Set Mode. hörbert can also record whatever is currently playing. Here’s how
Yes, for downloading files from the internet, updating podcasts and for internet radio. Whatever is on hörbert’s memory card will play afterwards even without an internet connection.
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