Music and the frail elderly

Journal/Book: Activities, Adaptation and Aging. 1985; 7: 73-75.

Abstract: Explores methods in which music may be used, particularly by professionals working with confused, withdrawn, and frail elderly persons, as a communication tool and a device for remotivation, reminiscence, and life review. Creativity and imagination, methods of assessment, eliciting responses, and use with the dying are discussed.

Note: music in treatment; frail elderly

Keyword(s): Music therapy; health impaired; aged

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