Collaborative Insights introduces the term musical care: the role that music – music listening as well as music-making – plays in supporting any aspect of people’s developmental or health needs, for example physical and mental health, cognitive and behavioural development, and interpersonal relationships. The book provides interdisciplinary insight into how musical care is understood and undertaken during different stages of the life course and offers a variety of perspectives from practitioners and researchers. Chapters cover the entire life course and authors reflects on the role of musical care at each life stage.