Emotional Goals
- Addresses positive changes in emotional states
- Increases confidence and self-esteem through successful music experiences
- Reduces agitation, stress, and anxiety
- Reduces depression
- Provides means of distraction and temporary relief from pain and discomfort
Spirituality & Identity Goals
• Enhances faith and spirituality
• Promotes creative and self expression when verbal and mental abilities may be deteriorating
• Provides support, acknowledgement, and validation of beliefs, values, thoughts, and ideas.
Socialization & Communication Goals
• Promotes community, social interaction, and group cohesion
• Increases awareness to environment and others
• Enhances social and emotional skills • Decreases behaviour problems (ie. agitation, aggression, anxiety)
• Increases attention and focus
Cognitive Goals
- Triggers memories as music is one of the last memory centres of the brain to deteriorate with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
- Enhances in recall and language skills
- Enhances visual perception and sensory processing
- Provides cognitive stimulation to deteriorating brain areas and neural pathways
Mobility & Movement Goals
- Improves fine and gross motor skills
- Improves mobility and coordination of movement
- Enhances visual motor skills
- Improves relaxed states with individuals who are agitated, stressed, anxious, or in pain
