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Music Therapy for Alzheimer’s: Enhancing Lives Through Melody

Discover how music therapy empowers individuals with Alzheimer’s disease through improvisation, communication, and culture. Explore the transformative effects of music on emotional awareness, agency, belonging, and finding meaning in life. Get insights on group sessions, structured activities, and personal anecdotes showcasing the profound impact of music therapy.

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Music Therapy for Alzheimer’s: Enhancing Lives Through Melody

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  1. MUSIC THERAPY:Empowering People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease Alison Ledger BMus (Mus Thy) (Hons), RMT, ATCL Cameron Haigh BMus (Mus Thy) (Hons), RMT

  2. A MUSIC THERAPY GROUP Sample structure Greeting and Warmup - medley of popular songs sung Movement - structured movement to music Body - quiz / theme / instrumental play, etc Relaxation - structured relaxation to music Closing song and farewell

  3. Music Therapy: Improvisation, Communication and Culture (Even Ruud, 1998)

  4. AFFECTIVE AWARENESS ability to reflect on and express emotions

  5. Audio example

  6. Audio example

  7. AGENCY achievement, competency, mastery & empowerment

  8. AGENCY Alzheimer’s patients could learn new material when it was presented in the context of a song. Prickett and Moore (1991) Singing despite impaired verbal communication skills. (Clair, 2000; Fitzgerald-Cloutier, 1993; Olderog Millard & Smith, 1989)

  9. AGENCY Continued participation in instrumental playing despite other capacities deteriorating. (Clair and Bernstein, 1990a; 1990b) Rhythmic activities may be particularly accessible. (Ebberts, 1994; Pollack & Namazi, 1992)

  10. Audio example

  11. AGENCY “I’ve never sung so many old songs” “I know all the old songs” “I made that up!” “we’re good, aren’t we?”

  12. BELONGING Being with others through music: being involved being included deep relationship

  13. BELONGING

  14. BELONGING Being with others through music: being involved being included deep relationship

  15. MEANING sense of wholeness and purpose in life despite a subjective state of feeling or suffering

  16. MEANING “I like the music because it gives me sense in the background, and without that sense it all gets lost”

  17. MEANING sense of wholeness and purpose in life despite a subjective state of feeling or suffering

  18. MEANING

  19. MEANING sense of wholeness and purpose in life despite a subjective state of feeling or suffering

  20. MEANING “Thank you for thinking of my husband” “music takes me back to the beach” “music takes you back more than activities”

  21. MUSIC THERAPY:Empowering People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease Alison Ledger alison.ledger@ul.ie Cameron Haigh chaigh_rmt@australiaonline.net.au Australian Music Therapy Association www.austmta.org.au

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