While the music lasts : on music and dementia / Rineke Smilde, Kate Page, Peter Alheit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smilde, Rineke, author.

Page, Kate (Musician), author.

Alheit, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music therapy for older people.

Music therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Place of Publication:

Delft : Eburon Academic Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

This book on the challenging topic 'Music and Dementia', describes recent research into the innovatory practice of 'Music for Life', a project managed by Wigmore Hall in London. Through engaging in music as a participatory process, its goal is to make the person behind the dementia visible again. The book explores the interaction between music and dementia through the stories of people who have been working closely together: three musicians, eight women living with dementia, five caregivers, a staff development practitioner, a project coordinator and three scientific observers.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

1. If music be the food of love, play on… Introduction

1 Introduction

2. …music, and only music, can do the calling. Conceptual Framework

2.1 Music and Dementia

2.2 Communication and Participation

2.3 Learning and Leadership

3. First-hand observations. Grounded Theory - Methodology

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The pragmatist background of grounded theory

3.3 Our own methodological approach

4. What does the song hope for? Analysis

4.1 Identity

4.2 Communication

4.3 Participation

4.4 Development

5. …You are the music While the music lasts. Conclusions and Discussion

5 Conclusions and discussion

Appendices

Appendix I. The Practice of Music for Life

Appendix II. Project management

Appendix III. Passionate about connection - founder Linda Rose

Appendix IV. Protagonists

Appendix V. List of musical instruments

References

List of graphics and musical transcriptions

Index

About the authors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-5972-890-4

OCLC:

1265461269