MusicWorx Toolbox: Successful Approaches for Older Adults With Varying Abilities

This MusicWorx Toolbox course is ideal for working in an older adult setting, but the ideas are adaptable to fit almost any population, helping clients achieve cognitive, sensorimotor, speech and language, social, and emotional goals. These intervention ideas are thorough enough that music therapists may replicate them exactly to create successful therapeutic sessions. But they also may incorporate any therapist's unique artistic interpretation. The author describes how to adapt sessions to groups of clients with varying abilities, typical of older-adult communities.

How to Use This Toolbox

    with older-adult groups in a variety of settings
    as a template for other music-centered wellness groups that target older adults
    for easy adaptation in group and individual sessions to meet the needs of unique clients

What’s Inside This Toolbox

    158 single-sided pages
    90 digital files for colorful handouts, including songs, articles, book lists
    15 detailed sessions
    digital form download (included with CMTEs)
    foreword by guest author
    working with older adults with varying abilities information
    list of reference and music books for expanded knowledge and repertoire

Contents

    Introduction
    Session 1: Apples
    Session 2: Humor
    Session 3: Modes of Travel
    Session 4: Colors
    Session 5: Moon Songs
    Session 6: Women’s Names in Song
    Session 7: Let’s Hear It for the Boys
    Session 8: Home Sweet Home
    Session 9: Smiles
    Session 10: Country Music
    Session 11: Honoring Disney
    Session 12: Feel the Spirit
    Session 13: Friendship
    Session 14: Folk Songs
    Session 15: Weathering It
    50 Recommended Songs
    Reference Books
    Music Books