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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – A therapy program pioneered by a New York man has made its way to an Iowa assisted-living community, with the goal of using music to help patients with dementia.The program, called “Music and Memory,” tries to find the connection between music and the mental gaps of a person suffering from a cognitive disability. The Meth-Wick Community is piloting this program at its Woodlands facility, which houses about 65 residents suffering from some form of dementia. Read more here…

Clients at a local nonprofit residential mental health center face some tough issues. Clients at Skyland Trail grapple with diagnoses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, and substance abuse, spend much of their days in intense talk therapy. Read more here…

The Zapuni LLC organisation was founded in 2012 to bring together Japanese artists and musicians to collaborate on different projects to help raise awareness and money for aid. Read more here…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…