You Bring Out the Music in Me : Music in Nursing Homes

This enlightening book explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing homes. The author examines music therapy in gerontology and provides ideas for activities professionals who want to use music in their nursing home activity programs.

An enlightening book, You Bring Out the Music in Me, explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing homes. Practicing music therapists explain how music “speaks” to all of us, regardless of our language, culture, or abilities and how it can be used with groups and individuals in nursing homes to encourage relaxation and expression of feeling and increase socialization. The chapters encompass both music therapy practice in gerontology as well as practical ideals and suggestions for activities directors who want to use music in their nursing home activities programs. This readable book includes a history of music therapy, the need for research in the field, discussions of music in groups and music with individuals, and a useful resource list of music materials.