The transformative role music therapy can play in all areas of healthcare, and especially in the care of older adults is increasingly apparent. However, while music activities are present in most care settings, these activities don't provide the therapeutic benefits that are possible with music therapy-informed interventions and programs. Best practices from music therapy are transforming dementia care, and have the potential to improve healthcare-and health-for older people, whatever their needs, wherever they receive care. Dr. Concetta Tomaino, a pioneer in the field of music therapy,. shares more than 40 years of clinical and research experience--not just with Music Therapists but also with healthcare leaders, clinicians, and direct care staff. With chapters on mental health and wellness, dementia, as well as movement and speech rehabilitation, this comprehensive and friendly practice guide will help all caregivers use music therapy best practices to provide better, more fulfilling support across all senior healthcare settings.

Written for family members, caregivers, health care workers, and activity professionals, Music, Memory, and Meaning is the answer for those looking to understand and effectively use the power of music with aging older adults. A practical guide to using music to create connections, this book provides strategies, techniques, ideas, and resources for getting the most out of a shared listening experience. Containing over 100 engaged listening discussions and 15 research-based and professionally reviewed playlists, this book guides readers, even those with no musical experience, towards successfully using music to connect with aging loved ones living with cognitive decline or dementia. Readily adaptable, Music, Memory, and Meaning can be used with older adults in all levels of care and is appropriate for use both in individual and group settings.

This book contains essays which explore the relationship of music and medicine. Problems involved in the cooperation of these fields are discussed and solutions are presented.

This book will utilize one of the greatest artistic phenomena as a coping and healing tool in your powerful journey to mental wellness. You will explore the melodic meanings of some of the best music of our time while applying their themes of love, empowerment, sadness, reflection, anger, and hope into your plan to improve your life. Music has the ability to motivate you to achieve your goals, soothe your greatest moments of sadness, calm your heightening moments of anger, celebrate your greatest achievements, and open your mind to healing and rejuvenation. Music can also evoke powerful emotions; it can fuel our anger, make us laugh, provide comfort in distress, and sometimes be so beautiful that it makes us cry. Music is the auditory bookmark of our lives. Every milestone in your life can probably be noted by a particular song. Rhythm-based listening therapy can have profound effects on the brain, helping to activate and create new neural pathways, thus improving brain functioning. This can be especially useful in people struggling with depression, trauma, and anxiety. Music is one of those amazing things of our world that transcends time, cultures, religions, and age. It allows you to identify feelings, put words to those feelings, give a beat, tone, pitch, rhythm, or melody to allow your soul to transform an introspective emotion into sound. In its many different forms, music has the ability to pierce the soul, touch the heart, and open the mind to many aspects of life. This book will explore the genres of R&B, jazz, country western, classical, hip hop, rock, pop, trap, instrumental, and gospel to aid in identifying emotions, application of coping skills, and facilitate journaling your healing experience. Music gives the human existence a colorful guide of its highs, lows, and the beautiful experience of living life as only you can. Music is special. Music is powerful. Let it guide you on your wellness journey starting NOW....

Get a quick, expert overview of the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions in health care. This practical resource compiled by Dr. Olivia Swedberg Yinger provides a concise, useful overview of the profession of music therapy, including a description of each of the research-support practices that occur in the settings where music therapists most commonly work. - Features a wealth of information on music therapy and its relevance in education settings, mental health treatment, medical treatment and rehabilitation, hospice and palliative care, gerontology, and wellness. - Includes a chapter on current trends and future directions in music therapy - Consolidates today's available information and guidance in this timely area into one convenient resource.

While in her forties, Lili Udell Fiore found herself in a difficult situation. While juggling her career, marriage, and family, she received a call that her beloved aunt, who lived many states away, was not well. Faced with managing her aunt's care from a distance, Lili relied on wisdom from professionals, friends, and family members to do her best. Eventually, Lili found her way, and then was also faced with caring for her aging parents. In a helpful resource for caregivers seeking trusted guidance, Fiore shares the lessons learned and wisdom gained from missteps along her own journey as a caregiver that also includes knowledge she learned from her father who was an Episcopal Priest and head of Pastoral Care at the local hospital and an early teacher of dying and death in the 1970s. Her guide provides advice on how to hire Caregivers, create healthy boundaries, utilize her sensory care method, approach Loved Ones about advocating on their behalf, provide end-of-life care, and dozens of tracking forms for personal and medical care. There are various forms, for managing caregiving, preparing for your Loved One's death, and managing affairs after death. Included is valuable insight on grief and how to live again once the journey as a caregiver has ended. Lili's Caregiver's Guide shares proven methods to help Caregivers find peace, organization, and a sense of control while creating the best possible life and passing for you the Caregiver and your Loved Ones.

In 2011, seven thousand American “baby boomers” (those born between 1946 and 1964) turned sixty-five daily. As this largest U.S. generation ages, cities, municipalities, and governments at every level must grapple with the allocation of resources and funding for maintaining the quality of life, health, and standard of living for an aging population. In The New Neighborhood Senior Center, Joyce Weil uses in-depth ethnographic methods to examine a working-class senior center in Queens, New York. She explores the ways in which social structure directly affects the lives of older Americans and traces the role of political, social, and economic institutions and neighborhood processes in the decision to close such centers throughout the city of New York. Many policy makers and gerontologists advocate a concept of “aging in place,” whereby the communities in which these older residents live provide access to resources that foster and maintain their independence. But all “aging in place” is not equal and the success of such efforts depends heavily upon the social class and availability of resources in any given community. Senior centers, expanded in part by funding from federal programs in the 1970s, were designed as focal points in the provision of community-based services. However, for the first wave of “boomers,” the role of these centers has come to be questioned. Declining government support has led to the closings of many centers, even as the remaining centers are beginning to “rebrand” to attract the boomer generation. However, The New Neighborhood Senior Centerdemonstrates the need to balance what the boomers’ want from centers with the needs of frailer or more vulnerable elders who rely on the services of senior centers on a daily basis. Weil challenges readers to consider what changes in social policies are needed to support or supplement senior centers and the functions they serve.

Singing and Wellbeing provides evidence that the benefits of a melodious voice go far beyond pleasure, and confirms the importance of singing in optimum health. A largely untapped resource in the health care professions, the singing voice offers rewards that are closer than ever to being fully quantified by advances in neuroscience and psychology. For music, pre-med, bioethics, and medical humanities students, this book introduces the types of ongoing research that connect behaviour and brain function with the musical voice.

Here is an overview of many of the ethical challenges facing health care practitioners today. Health providers striving for the appropriate balance between human rights and values and the objectives within their professions confront many ethical dilemmas. This helpful book explores such dilemmas from practical and philosophical perspectives and helps practitioners successfully navigate through the maze of concerns they face on a daily basis. With Ethics and Values in Long Term Health Care, readers can develop new modes of ethical thinking that will enhance their practice as they improve the quality of life of the elderly they serve. The book presents information that can be used as a catalyst for innovative thinking and a guide for positive action. Readers are encouraged to apply the lessons contained in this book to practical decisionmaking in their respective health professions. Chapters assist health practitioners and others in thinking more in-depth about the impact of their personal ethics and values on service delivery, and help them to broaden their views and enhance their decisionmaking skills. The book has a broad scope and is divided into four sections which address: Practitioner Knowledge Caregiving End of Life Choices Health Care Reform Ethics and Values in Long Term Health Care helps prepare health care professionals to confront some of the major ethics and values challenges of the 1990s and beyond. This book can be used as a guide to ethical awareness, as well as a tool for teaching ethics and values or for developing programs and workshops.