Posts Tagged ‘music therapy’

PostHeaderIcon Music Aids Alzheimer’s and Dementia Therapy

While modern medicine is the keystone of treating seniors living with dementia and Alzheimer’s, some professional health care providers may find that there are more creative forms of therapy that could help patients with these conditions. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Local charity celebrates three years of singing success

Singalong with Independent Arts

Sing About is a fun and social music therapy which can help to maintain memory and improve mood and well being. It can also improve breathing, movement, speech and confidence. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Kristen Hoffmann – There’s Healing in the Music

Kristen Hoffmann – There’s Healing in the Music. “Soul Train” host Don Cornelius used to end every show with “Peace, Love, and Soul”. Musician Kristen Hoffmann has taken that thought a step further wishing “Peace, Love, Light, and Music” to the world. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon USC researches music therapy for children

USC researches music therapy for children. Three University of the Sunshine Coast researchers hope their investigation of “therapeutic listening” will reduce anxiety and increase emotion recognition and attention control in children with High Functioning Autism/Asperger’s Syndrome. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Lea Michele: Music is my therapy

The Glee star poured out her emotions in the lyrics in If You Say So, which was recorded weeks after the death of her TV co-star and real-life boyfriend last July. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Connie Fairchild Talks About Band Reunions, Music Therapy And Cabaret

Connie Fairchild

The format for the Songbird Café series — placing four singer-songwriters in the round and having them sing songs in turn – was made famous by the Bluebird Café in Nashville, Tenn. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon 2013 was a challenging year for Highlands Hospital

Highlands Hospital’s chief financial officer told the board of directors on Wednesday that 2013 was a challenging year for the Connellsville facility. The unit uses a new music therapy session to help patients and will soon begin using art as another integrated therapy medium. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Hospital music therapy classes face axe

Oxford Mail: Thomaz Lusby-Roberts in a music therapy session with Andy Stevens. Picture: OX65602 Richard Cave

WEEKLY music therapy sessions at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital face the axe because of a funding crisis.Managers of Rosie’s Rainbow Fund said donations – its only source of funding – only “scratch the surface” of the £50,000 needed each year. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Adult day care center patients enjoys musical entertainment

Some adult day care center patients in Florence enjoyed some great music Wednesday. Among Wednesday’s performers, William S. Taylor, who sang classic and Motown hits at Active Day of the Pee Dee. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Conference to propagate music therapy in treatment of diseases

Music therapists and medical and healthcare professionals will meet here in a bid to propagate music therapy in the treatment of several diseases. Read more here

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