Town Square

Post a New Topic

Music program helps penetrate the fog of dementia

Original post made on Feb 17, 2015

Inspired by the award-winning 2014 documentary "Alive Inside," Barbara Kalt is now adding "personalized music" — via iPods and individual playlists — to the array of activities offered at Rosener House, the Menlo Park day program for adults of which she has been executive director for two decades.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 7:15 PM

Comments (1)

Posted by Louise68
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Feb 17, 2015 at 9:27 pm

Thank you so much for this wonderful and heart-warming story! I had no idea that music therapy was done at any nursing home. It is so wonderful and heartening to read that something so helpful and good is being done for some of our most vulnerable and needy people -- people with memory impairment.

I hope this kind of personalized music therapy will be offered everywhere for people with memory impairment.

I just love positive stories like this one. More, please!

Email Town Square Moderator      


Don't miss out on the discussion!
Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic.

Email:


Post a comment

On Wednesday, we'll be launching a new website. To prepare and make sure all our content is available on the new platform, commenting on stories and in TownSquare has been disabled. When the new site is online, past comments will be available to be seen and we'll reinstate the ability to comment. We appreciate your patience while we make this transition..

Stay informed.

Get the day's top headlines from Almanac Online sent to your inbox in the Express newsletter.

Most Viewed Stories

See today's stories