1. MUSIC THERAPY: Empowering People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease Alison Ledger BMus (Mus Thy) (Hons), RMT, ATCL Cameron Haigh BMus (Mus Thy) (Hons), RMT

2. A MUSIC THERAPY GROUP Sample structure Greeting and Warmup - medley of popular songs sung Movement - structured movement to music Body - quiz / theme / instrumental play, etc Relaxation - structured relaxation to music Closing song and farewell

3. Music Therapy: Improvisation, Communication and Culture (Even Ruud, 1998)

4. AFFECTIVE AWARENESS ability to reflect on and express emotions

5. Audio example

8. AGENCY achievement, competency, mastery & empowerment

9. Alzheimer’s patients could learn new material when it was presented in the context of a song. Prickett and Moore (1991) Singing despite impaired verbal communication skills. (Clair, 2000; Fitzgerald-Cloutier, 1993; Olderog Millard & Smith, 1989) AGENCY

10. Continued participation in instrumental playing despite other capacities deteriorating. ( Clair and Bernstein, 1990a; 1990b) Rhythmic activities may be particularly accessible. (Ebberts, 1994; Pollack & Namazi, 1992) AGENCY

11. Audio example

12. “I’ve never sung so many old songs” “I know all the old songs” “I made that up!” “we’re good, aren’t we?” AGENCY

14. BELONGING Being with others through music: being involved being included deep relationship

15. BELONGING

16. Being with others through music: being involved being included deep relationship

18. MEANING sense of wholeness and purpose in life despite a subjective state of feeling or suffering

19. MEANING “I like the music because it gives me sense in the background, and without that sense it all gets lost”

20. MEANING sense of wholeness and purpose in life despite a subjective state of feeling or suffering

21. MEANING

22. sense of wholeness and purpose in life despite a subjective state of feeling or suffering

23. “Thank you for thinking of my husband” “music takes me back to the beach” “music takes you back more than activities” MEANING

25. MUSIC THERAPY: Empowering People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease Alison Ledger alison.ledger@ul.ie Cameron Haigh chaigh_rmt@australiaonline.net.au Australian Music Therapy Association www.austmta.org.au