Here-and-Now Music Therapy - Experimental Music Improvisation with Dementia Sufferers (Paperback)

Based on the belief that shared musical experience improves the quality of life, this book presents an account of the use of music therapy with patients with dementia. The author shows how the essential personality can be musically engaged, to the benefit of the individual and the group. Observations can assist with early assessment and diagnosis and the patients' role can be an increasingly active one in the therapeutic experience.