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Saturday 31 January 2015
Alive Inside- Movie about Music Therapy and Nursing Home
Dear all,
how's your week been? :)
Alive Inside
This movie, newly released in 2014, was a movie about music, dementia, music therapy . I had a little 'private showing' day with my music therapy classmates watching it together! It was a very touching and inspiring film to watch, for anyone. “Alive Inside” is a film created by Michael Rossato-Bennett. Dan Cohen visits elderlies with dementia and Alzheimer’s who live in nursing homes. In giving the patients headphones and iPods with personal playlists, they film the positive responses. The patients showed physical enjoyment and bursting tears when they heard the songs retrieved from the past.
We have to bear in mind that it is not the clinical use of music therapy to facilitate expressive and receptive communication, increase alertness, decrease behavioral and psychological symptoms related to Dementia, increase engagement, increase mobility and physical functioning and validate life experiences. It also raised a lot of issues in the public health system in the government. I hope that in the future, there will be more opprtunities to advance public awareness of the benefits of music therapy and increase ACCESS to quality music therapy services in a rapidly changing world.
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