Alzheimer's
A neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive impairment and neuropsychiatric symptoms causing patients to lose the ability to function regularly as it progresses.
What is Alzheimer's Disease
Goal is specific to patients with Alzheimer's and Dementia.
What is Memory Recall
patient whos alienated themselves from the group or may have problems socializing
Participate in smaller group sessions to help with any anxiety.
What is AMTA
Disease almost identical to Alzheimer's
What is Dementia
This can be achieved by combining calming music with meditation and reducing group therapy to individual meetings.
Patients having trouble expressing their emotions or their needs
Try song writing or lyric analysis
people of different cultures can extract different emotions from the same song or sound.
What is the "Cue redundancy model"
using two or more therapeutic methods to treat one patient(ex:art therapy combined with music therapy)
What is multidomain therapy
Having patients participate in writing or playing music can help them feel a better sense of...
What is Sense of Self Control
Patient feeling anxious or stressed
Unique music sounds associated with different cultures.
What is "Cultural Convention"
memories that can be called automatically by cue.
What is involuntary memories
this goal can be approached by using lyric analysis to encourage patients emotional process
Patient has distant family or family issues
Invite family to come to sessions and show they're involved in patients life.
The belief that the meaning in music arises from the connection the listener makes between the music itself and some nonmusical object or event.
What is the "Referentialist Theory"
Most effective type of music (not a genre) for recalling memories
Emotional/Sad music
Emotion evoking music.
Encouraging patients to participate in group sessions and interact more can help alleviate...
What is alleviate feelings of loneliness or isolation
A patient currently on hospice
The use of music to imitate human emotions and movement