The Beauty and Benefits of Music Therapy

Elevate Eldercare

In today’s episode, Beth Furlong, RN, Community Relations Manager, and Hilary Camino, a certified neurologic music therapist at Sage Living in Jackson, Wyo., sit down with Susan Ryan.

Furlong offers a history of the Living Center and its evolution into Sage Living, emphasizing the need for a larger, more home-like space. She describes the collaboration with architects to design a dedicated music and art center.

The two talk about the significant impact music therapy has had in their community for the past eight years, including how it has fostered resident engagement and outcomes such as reduced isolation and decreased use of psychotropic meds.

Camino’s work was showcased in the short film documentary, "Something Changed in the Room," a winner at the Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival in 2024.She shares her journey and the introduction of music therapy at Sage Living Center, explains the initial skepticism from the hospital staff and the successful pilot program they implemented.

Whatever your notion might be of what a ‘music therapist’ does and the value it can bring to each of us, this conversation will inspire you to think and do differently.

More about Sage Living: https://www.sageliving.health/

More about Nordoff Robins Music Therapy here: https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/20.500.12289/4429/4429.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Link to short film:

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