Elderly

A SPACE FOR THINKING, REFRESHING, AND PLAYING

The Music Space For Older Adults aims to provide a space where the elderly can demonstrate and rediscover their cognitive, social, and physical functioning. In the presence of the Music Therapist and therapeutic boundaries, the elderly can feel safe to talk about anything and express themselves through musical instruments.
Music acts as a tool in The Music Space. The Music Therapist will not force our clients to play any music if they do not want to. Even if clients choose to improvise music with the Music Therapist, they do not need to know how to play an instrument or have any musical knowledge, as music is instinctive and is an effective and direct channel for communicating emotions.
At times music can make more sense than words and musical sounds are not only very easy to produce but can easily reflect thoughts, intentions and feelings. The therapist is trained to make sense of musical communication and to respond accordingly.
The Music Space provides a non-threatening and protected atmosphere. The process of sharing, reflecting, reminiscing, expressing and music making help our clients to alleviate psychological stress, improve general health and wellbeing.

Suitable for:
Dementia Patients
Long-term illnesses
Grief and bereavement
Psychiatric problems
Older adults experiencing
psychological stress e.g. retirement

MUSIC ASSISTED SPEECH TRAINING

Melody Assisted Speech Training aims to help people suffering from dysphasia (e.g. patients recovering from stroke ) to regain as much speech as they can through the use of music, in a gradual and progressive manner. The treatment is effective in improving slurred articulation and reducing the frequency of phonemic errors in aphasic patients.

Suitable for :
Patients suffering from Dysphasia e.g. Stroke patients Esp suitable for patients with Left-side Stroke leision in Broca’s area or with lesions interrupting the nervous connections between Wenicke’s and Borca’s area.

GAIT CLINIC

Use of rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and dynamic-acoustical patterns of music to provide temporal, spatial, and force cues to structure and regulate functional movements, including gait. Patients can use our music for their home gait practice programme.

Suitable for Patients with Gait Deviation
Stroke Patients
Traumatic Brain Injury
Orthopedic Conditions
Parknson’s Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Other Gait/ Coordination Problems