Care Facilities - Personalized Music Therapy Program Setup
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How to Set up an iPod Program Well-Tuned is a program designed specifically to enable facilities to quickly start a personal listening program. Well-Tuned provides insights into how to manage large numbers of playlists, handle music legally, apply best practice outcomes to persons with a wide variety of physical, cognitive, and social situations. Contact Well-Tuned for more information. Therapeutic Recreation
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At Isabella, our experience in the iPod project has impact beyond the benefit to individuals. Yes, we are witness to persons listening to their individually programmed iPods that are soothing themselves with music, or those singing for the first time in years. Most remarkable is an increased calmness on resident neighborhoods. In the past, a frenetic energy contributed to negative resident-to-resident interactions. That frenetic energy disappears when iPods are in use and resident-to-resident interaction is friendly and welcoming. The opportunity to learn who a person is through their choice in music has brought a heightened awareness to individual preferences. An increased cultural knowledge occurs when assisting persons in their musical selections. As a society that is plugged in and turned on, we must give this gift across the age spectrum. With the technology that exists this project could expand beyond music to other audio files that may sooth the soul. Significant contentment, happiness and an enjoyable quality of daily life have been achieved with the use of iPods. Lesley Halliday Community Director Isabella Facility |