For Senior Living Communities
Warm, familiar background music for senior living communities. Jazz standards, classical, oldies. Scheduled around meals, activities, and rest.
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Music and memory
Music and memory are stored in different parts of the brain. Even when language fades — when names slip away and faces blur — the right song can bring someone back. A jazz standard from the 1950s. A classical piece heard at a wedding decades ago. The melody stays long after the words are gone.
A 2020 study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease found that personalized music reduced agitation in memory care residents by up to 67%. The Interdisciplinary Council on Aging reports that music therapy decreases anxiety, improves mood, and increases social engagement in older adults.
But choosing the right music for a senior living community is harder than it sounds. Volume sensitivity is high — what feels comfortable in the activity room is overwhelming in the dining room. Genre matters enormously. The explicit content that slips through a generic playlist can upset residents and families alike.
Puana gives you control over every room, every genre, every hour — with a content filter that actually works.
Built for the daily rhythm
A senior living community has its own rhythm — meals, activities, rest, social time. Puana schedules different music for every part of the day, in 15-minute blocks, with gentle transitions. Set it once and it runs itself.
Soft piano, gentle classical. A calm start to the day. No jarring transitions.
Warm jazz, easy listening. Conversational volume. The dining room feels like home.
Light oldies, bossa nova, acoustic. Enough energy for engagement without overstimulation.
Relaxed jazz standards, soft vocal tracks. Familiar, comforting. Appetite-friendly.
Ambient, soft classical, new age. Rest-friendly. Calm without silence.
Smooth jazz, gentle strings. The day closes warmly. Sleep comes easier.
From a cafe owner
“The best background music doesn't demand attention. It just makes the room feel the way it should.”
Jesse Meria runs a cafe . Every morning, before the espresso machine warms up, the music starts — and the room goes from four walls to a feeling. Warm, familiar, alive.
He built Puana because he couldn't find music that sounded like his space was supposed to sound. Not stock background noise. Not an algorithm. Something with warmth and texture that made people want to stay.
Puana is an infinite catalog of original music — each track composed to feel like it belongs somewhere real. A cafe, a dining room, a common area where people gather. The principle is the same: music should make a space feel like home.
Jesse Meria
Founder, Puana
What you get
Jazz, classical, easy listening, ambient, bossa nova, acoustic, oldies. Warm, familiar, composed for real spaces.
Different music for meals, activities, rest, and social time. Automatic transitions. Set it once.
One toggle removes all explicit content. Every common area, every hour, every genre — family-appropriate always.
Dining room, activity room, common areas, hallways — each device plays its own station at its own volume, and the schedule runs the day.
Staff gets play, pause, and volume. Managers get scheduling and settings. Simple for everyone.
Every community gets its own schedule, team, and settings. One dashboard for your entire organization.
Common questions
Jazz standards, classical, easy listening, oldies, bossa nova, and soft acoustic tend to resonate most with older adults. Puana offers endless original music across these genres and more — all composed with warmth and familiarity in mind. You can also set different genres for different areas and times of day.
Many memory care communities build familiar music into their daily programming. Puana is a music service, not a medical or therapeutic product: it gives your team calm, familiar-sounding music for every part of the day, and the clinical choices stay with your care staff.
Puana has a single explicit content toggle that removes all tracks with explicit content across every station and every device. One click, and every common area, dining room, and activity room is family-friendly. No surprises.
Yes. Set calm jazz for breakfast, light classical for mid-morning, upbeat oldies for afternoon activities, soft ambient for evening and quiet piano overnight, and Puana switches automatically through the day.
Each area runs on its own device with its own volume settings. The dining room can be set at a conversational level while the activity room is slightly louder. Volume adjustments are instant and staff can control them without changing the schedule.
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