Highlights from a presentation to healthcare professionals. Music therapy is explained. The group received ideas of ways to use music with the elders they served.

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Is the Prescription Music or
Music Therapy?
-JoAnn Jordan, MTBC
-#RXMusicTherapy

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What is music?

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Why I think this matters to you…

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What is
music
therapy?

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This is your brain on music
- Daniel Levitin

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What music is appropriate?
 Late Teens-Early 20’s
 Music of Parents
 Music important to them

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Common populations

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Alzheimer’s/Dementia
Cognitive Needs
Emotional Needs
Disruptive Behavior
Caregiver/Family
Needs

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Hospice
Physical Needs
Spiritual Needs
Psychosocial Needs
Bereavement
Needs

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Wellness
Lifelong Learning
Cognitive Wellness
Physical Wellness
Emotional Wellness

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Intergenerational
Sages serving
Younger
Generations
Learning Together
Younger serving
Sages
Generations
Recreating Together
*

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Do you need a music therapist?

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Alphabet Soup of music therapy
Music Therapist –
Board Certified
Neurologic Music
Therapy
Hospice & Palliative
Care Music Therapy
Certificate
ACMT, CMT or RMT

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Is music therapy reimbursable
service?

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A Music Tool Kit
--For use with clients/patients
- For you

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Name That Tune
 Version 1 – Conversational flow
of listening, naming, discussing
what song reminds them of,
where they heard it.
 Target Behavior: Long-term
memory retrieval
 Populations:
Alzheimer’s/dementia,
community, intergenerational
 Setting: group or individual
 Materials:
 Recordings or sheet music
of familiar songs
 Tic-tac-toe board if using that
option
 Version 2 –Tic-Tac-Toe
competition between
teams/individuals
 Version 3 – Give the last phrase
of the song

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Rate this music
 Target Behavior: Increase
support, identify preferred
music for various purposes
 Populations: Community,
hospice, caregivers, yourself
 Setting: small group or
individual
 Materials:
 Recordings via CDs, MP3s,
Etc.
 Rating sheet
 Pencil
 Consider if need to have a list
of emotions, tasks to pair with
music
 Can do as a series of questions

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Sing-along and discussion
 Considerations:
 Songs people know can vary;
 Aging, medications and
diagnosis can affect voice
and alter comfort
 Target Behavior: Recall of
familiar songs and past
experiences; self-expression
 Populations: Alzheimer’s,
Hospice, Wellness
 Setting: Individual interaction to
small group (up to 15)
 Materials sheet music or
recordings in sing-able keys ,
lists of songs and discussion
materials

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Your creation:
 Target Behavior:
 Populations:
 Setting:
 Materials:
 Considerations

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Do you need a music therapist?

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#RXMusicTherapy
Questions:
•Mine
•Yours