"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which,
more than any other, ministers to human welfare."
- Herbert Spencer, the British philosopher and sociologist
Resources for Research and Abstracts:
http://www.mhtp.org/therapeutic-music-research/
An NIH-Kennedy Center Initiative to Explore Music and the Mind
Articles and Interviews:
Music for Healing and Transition Program Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viq8mnvrthY
British Society of Gerontology Ageing Bites: ‘Haven’: people living with dementia sharing the activity of listening to music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9fTxQuBbTQ
How Music Can Help Patients Recover From Surgery And Strokes
https://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-08-17/new-use-of-music-in-medical-treatments
Book recommendations:
The Power of Sound by Joshua Leeds
http://thepowerofsound.net/joshua-leeds/
The Power of Music by Elena Mannes
http://anoteonthetype.net/assets/mannes.text.pdf
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/01/136859090/the-power-of-music-to-affect-the-brain
The Field by Lynn McTaggart
Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words by Kate Whouley
http://www.katewhouley.com/rtm.htm
Rowing without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Ulla-Carn Lindquist
http://www.curledup.com/rownoars.htm
The 36 hour day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Diseases, Other Dementia and Memory Loss by Nancy L. Mace & Peter V. Rabins
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-36-hour-day/id733789308?mt=11
Open Heart by Elie Wiesel
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642524-open-heart?ac=1&from_search=true
Here if you need me: A true story by Kate Braestrup
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/here-if-you-need-me-a-true-story
How Can I Help? by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/36956/how-can-i-help-by-ram-dass/9780394729473/
Final Gifts: Understanding the special awareness, needs and communications of the dying by Maggie Callahan and Patricial Kelley
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Final-Gifts/Maggie-Callanan/9781451667257
Companioning the Dying by Greg Yoder and Alan Wolfelt
https://www.centerforloss.com/bookstore/companioning-the-dying/