"I would weave a song for you": Therapeutic music and milieu for dementia residents

Journal/Book: Activities, Adaptation and Aging. 1994; 18: 57-74.

Abstract: When the Music Therapy for Older Americans Act was signed in 1992, public recognition was given to the power of music to increase cognitive and psychosocial functioning and well-being in older Americans. Music therapy services can be provided only under the direction of accredited music therapists. Yet the benefits of music therapy are profound, and the need for therapeutic treatment for dementia residents is so great that ways must be found to disseminate selected therapeutic goals that nurturing music and milieu can promote. Strategies suggested in this paper are among those that have been used successfully with dementia residents and can be facilitated by activity professionals, motivated caregivers, and health care professionals to improve quality of life.

Note: music therapy; nurturing milieu & psychosocial functioning & well being; elderly nursing home residents with dementia

Keyword(s): Dementia ; music therapy; nursing homes; well being; aged

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