Music Therapy Major

compmom
Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:57:19 +0000

The hospice I worked with has only volunteers doing music with patients, mainly singers. As I wrote before, our music organization tried to demonstrate benefit in a specific program for pediatric palliative care, by first providing music on a volunteer basis. Music therapy became part of their “complementary care” program but later was dropped.

We spend many months in a facility for traumatic brain injury with no music therapist in sight, and this is a major facility in a major city. (The private music therapy mentioned above did a world of good for one of the patients.)

An extended family member had art therapy in a psych. hospital but no music.

I am interested in this and glad to hear more is happening in some locations. Not sure what is going on here, but there is indeed a well-known music therapy program in my city.

I include music in my Tai Chi in assisted living- as a volunteer! I have all the respect in the world for the training in this field as I struggle to learn what little I can as a lay person about the residents in my class.