Our goal is to enhance the quality of life for older adults and their families and to assist them in navigating ever-changing and increasingly complex health, mental health, social service and community environments.

Music Therapy

Music Therapy is the systematic use of music in developing a relationship between the client and therapist to restore, maintain, and improve the physical, emotional, psychosocial, and neurologic function. Music Therapy can be used as a diagnostic aid to identify problem areas such as emotional/psychological issues, family interaction, feeling expression, pain management, and decreased environmental awareness in both verbal and nonverbal individuals (UMDNJ).

Benefits and Applications:

Depression, anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorders
Sleep disorders
Dementia & Alzheimer’s Disease
Epilepsy
Parkinson’s Disease
Cancer
Stroke & Traumatic Brain Injury
Chronic Pain & Surgery
Evoke memories and reduce anxiety
Improve coordination, strength, balance, and gait
Reduce pre-operative and post-operative anxiety and fear
Increase patient’s pain tolerance & decrease heart rate, anxiety level, and depression
Sleep disorders
Decrease epileptic attack
Effect the motor system for people with Parkinson’s disease

Articles:

Music Therapy, Rhythm, Motor Rehabilitation

Music Therapy and Memory Deficits

Music Therapy for People with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's Disease

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