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Music therapist Lara Robinson shares a song with Cedarstone Enhanced Care residents Mildred Porter and Tonya Dean in Truro. Robinson manages the newly launched iPod Pharmacy in the area, taking donated iPods and loading them with music to meet clients’ needs and musical preferences. (STAFF)

TRURO — It’s medical music to Lara Robinson’s trained ears. “They had a lot of success with it out West, so I’m excited,” Robinson, a music therapist at Cedarstone Enhanced Care in Truro for the past 16 years, said of the iPod Pharmacy program. The program collects good-as-new iPods from people who don’t use them anymore, pairs them with new headphones donated from Skullcandy and an iTunes gift card and delivers them to music therapists for use with their clients. Read more here

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