Music therapy in palliative care

Author(s): Mount, B.

Journal/Book: Can Med Assoc J. 1978; 119: 1029-34.

Abstract: Initial observations regarding the use of music therapy at one hospital in the palliative care of patients with advanced malignant disease are presented. In the hands of a trained music therapist, music has proven to be a potent tool for improving the quality of life. The diversity of its potential is particularly suited to the deversity of the challenges - physical, psychosocial and spiritual - that these patients present.

Keyword(s): Music Therapy|. Palliative Care|PX. Terminal Care|PX

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