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Leadership
Dan Cohen, MSW, is the founding Executive Director of Music & Memory, Inc. He combines an extensive background in high tech training, corporate sales and software applications with social work,...
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A “Strong Intervention”: How Personalized Music Helped Lemon Grove Cut...
Whenever Judy Ely sits down with a new resident at the Lemon Grove Care Center to learn about his or her favorite foods, she also asks about a different sort of preference: What kind of music do you...
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Improving Resident Quality of Life: How Music Favorites Helped Reduce...
Margaret Rivers, Associate Director for Patient Services, and Ron Becker, Director of Therapeutic Recreation, with a resident at Coler-Carter SHNF The elderly Asian woman stood by the nurses’ station,...
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MUSIC & MEMORY℠ Helps Wisconsin Nursing Homes Reduce Antipsychotic Use
When Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services (DHS) decided to implement Music & Memory’s personalized music program in 100 long-term care facilities in September 2013, officials were hopeful that...
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When and How to Taper Antipsychotics for Nursing Home Residents: Lessons from...
Douglas Englebert, Pharmacy Practice Consultant for Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services Can personalized playlists help care organizations to reduce reliance on antipsychotics to manage...
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The Soothing Power of Music for People with Dementia—and Their Families, Too
Forrest with sons Greg (L) and Steve (R) As the afternoons grew longer, Forrest would become agitated. He’d tell his son, Steve, in no uncertain terms, to bring him his car—despite the fact that...
View ArticleOur Mission and Vision
MUSIC & MEMORY® is a non-profit organization that helps individuals with a wide range of cognitive and physical conditions to engage with the world, ease pain, and reclaim their humanity through...
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New Study Finds Music & Memory Program Reduces Distressed Behavior and...
In the most comprehensive study of its kind on the effects of the Music & Memory program, researchers from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis found that personalized music is...
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About Us
Our Mission MUSIC & MEMORY® is a non-profit organization that helps individuals with a wide range of cognitive and physical conditions to engage with the world, ease pain, and reclaim their...
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Music-Brain Resources
Music and the Brain Music & Memory started with the understanding that music is deeply rooted in our conscious and unconscious brains. As powerful as that idea is, it becomes even more important...
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Music & Memory Used in Texas Statewide Effort to Improve Long-Term Care...
Texas has decreased its use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing facilities by 58 percent – more than any other state, according to a report from the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in...
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State by State: Making the Case for Personalized Music
When Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services (DHS) decided to implement Music & Memory’s personalized music program in 100 long-term care facilities in September 2013, officials were hopeful...
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