Rhythm-N-You Music Therapy currently contracts with multiple long-term care agencies for older adults including rehabilitation, assisted living, and nursing facilities (often referred to as nursing homes).
Any of the following diagnoses in a long-term care center may have a positive response to music therapy:
- Stroke
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Dementia (with Lewy bodies and Fronto-temporal)
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Huntington’s Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
Goals & Outcomes
For older adults living in facilities that they call home, music therapy offers a familiar discipline to engage the adults in social and rehabilitative experiences. Music therapists address:
- Memory Recall
- Reality Orientation
- Reduction in Agitation & Irritability
- Reduction of Depression
- Mood Elevation
- Cognitive Skill maintenance
- Motor Skill maintenance
- Range of Motion Improvement
- Social Interaction and Awareness
- Self-Confidence Building
- Participation in Success-Oriented Experiences