June 2024 The Power of Music to Celebrate Alzheimer's Month

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month!

What better way to honor this day than through MUSIC?!

Music has the ability to positively impact the brain in many ways. Memory care programs that meaningfully engage persons and include music have been shown to:

reduce physical altercations

reduce the use of antipsychotic medications
decrease the number of falls as shown in the graph below

Everyone can benefit from the power of music. To assure success with your person consider the following:

Make sure you’re using musical favorites - from the era when the person was age 10-25

Set up music access that will really work - ease of use

Plan frequency of use

Try to be consistent and check in to be sure all is going well

THE POWER OF MUSIC

MUSIC has the power to:

create joyful connections

retrieve emotional memories

enhance neural pathways

engage more parts of the brain than any other activity

reconnect with past history and personal identity

provide a rich sensory experience

decreases negative emotions

Improve balance through movement

June 2024 The Power of Music to Celebrate Alzheimer's Month

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