Music Therapy in Palliative Care
Music therapy can be very beneficial with hospice or terminally ill patients.
Ann Hannan, a BC-MT at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, uses music therapy techniques such as, “song writing, improvisation, guided imagery and music, lyric analysis, singing, instrument playing… [to alleviate] isolation, loneliness and boredom; emotional issues…” and much more.
Using Music Therapy to help treat those who are terminally ill shows vast improvements in the patients emotional and even physical well-being!
How Music Therapy Helps Terminally Ill Patients: It can lift their spirits and help ease pain.