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LYNNWOOD, Wash. — It’s said that music soothes the savage beast, and it turns out a favorite song can also calm the most agitated Alzheimer’s patient. Fuzzy memories come into focus when Cora Freeberg hears a familiar song. Music has become an alternative to medicine at Quail Park in Lynnwood. Freeberg is part of a pilot project to see how music therapy can alter the aggressive behaviors of people living with dementia. Residents who’ve really struggled adjusting to the secured memory care community were hand picked to participate in the project. Read more here…

Living Care Lifestyles, the leader and simply the best in senior lifestyle communities, partnered with the Snohomish County Music Project(SCMP), to conduct a pilot study at Quail Park of Lynnwood, to assess the effectiveness of music with seniors living with Alzheimer’s and late stages of dementia. Read more here…

CHILDREN’S Hospice South West has been given a grant of £10,000 to enhance its music therapy facilities. The award from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation will help to support sessions with music therapists across the charity’s three hospices in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, including Little Harbour in Porthpean. Read more here…

Throughout the halls of Arkansas Children’s Hospital, you can spot Andrew Ghrayeb making his way to a patient’s room, slinging a guitar on his back and wheeling musical instruments on his cart filled with two xylophones, drums and two ukuleles. Rather than using medicine, Ghrayeb uses the healing power of music. Read more here…

The Harvey School is hosting the Northern Westchester Hospital Moms & Dads Rock at the Harvey School Walker Center for the Arts in Katonah on Saturday, June 20, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The event is a part of the Northern Westchester Hospital’s Music Therapy Program. Read more here…

While she sat in a chair for three hours, getting a transfusion to fight uterine cancer, Gail Driskill closed her eyes as a man strummed a guitar next to her. “Play anything,” the Boise woman would tell him. And he’d start with a classic John Denver tune or an improvised melody. As her face started to relax, he would bring down the tempo. As he brought down the tempo, her breathing would slow. Read more here…

The June meeting of the Stroke Support Group at Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital will feature Ann Morrow, Memorial Hermann Neurologic Music Therapist, speaking about “Music Therapy and the Stroke Patient.” Read more here…

Stonehouse, a Washington Township resident who works as a respiratory therapist, isn’t a musician but describes herself as a fan. She says volunteering combines her love of music with helping people: “When you see patients’ reactions, it’s really good medicine. Read more here…

A woman claims her arthritis and skin condition have been cured and her cancer reversed after she listened to “musical medicine”. Within 12 weeks, she said the psoriasis was gone and she was able to walk up hills, cycle and do a number of other activities she had not be able to do for seven years. Read more here…

Midway through the concert, the Sun Theater’s spotlight in St. Louis was on 13-year old Thomas Mack. He was performing a song called “Never Backing Down,” a song he’d written with Maryville University graduate student Ryan Eversole. Read more here…