Book contents
- Reviews
- Music, Wellness, and Aging
- Music, Wellness, and Aging
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Program NotesMusic, Wellness, and Aging
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Overture
- 2 In Search of a Perfect Harmony: Music and Wellness in Later Life
- 3 Hearing the Muse’s Message: Changes in Sensory–Perceptual and Cognitive Processes
- 4 Sing a New Song! Therapeutic Interventions with Music
- 5 Trio: Resilience, Recovery, and Growth
- 6 Tutti: Music in Relationships and Communities
- 7 Rhythm and Blues: Work and Retirement
- 8 Requiem: Spirituality and End-of-Life
- 9 Coda: Defining, Directing, and Celebrating Life
- Notes
- Index
4 - Sing a New Song! Therapeutic Interventions with Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2021
- Reviews
- Music, Wellness, and Aging
- Music, Wellness, and Aging
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Program NotesMusic, Wellness, and Aging
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Overture
- 2 In Search of a Perfect Harmony: Music and Wellness in Later Life
- 3 Hearing the Muse’s Message: Changes in Sensory–Perceptual and Cognitive Processes
- 4 Sing a New Song! Therapeutic Interventions with Music
- 5 Trio: Resilience, Recovery, and Growth
- 6 Tutti: Music in Relationships and Communities
- 7 Rhythm and Blues: Work and Retirement
- 8 Requiem: Spirituality and End-of-Life
- 9 Coda: Defining, Directing, and Celebrating Life
- Notes
- Index
Summary
We continue our discussion of how music may provide therapeutic benefit. This chapter broadens our discussion of music as a therapy and describes the beneficial use of music in the areas of depression, recovery from stroke, and other neurological impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease.In accord with our humanistic tack, we embrace caregiving concerns and emphasize the whole-person approach as we consider neurological impairments and the promise of music therapy to facilitate cognitive-behavioral function and to cope with disability. Therefore, we describe pathological changes in neurocognitive performance, and how music may afford opportunities for regaining behavioral function, self-expression, and enhanced quality of life.
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- Music, Wellness, and AgingDefining, Directing, and Celebrating Life, pp. 58 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021