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).

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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