Music therapy & dementia in el paso
Read About Daniel Garcia's work with the Alzheimer's community in El Paso.
Music therapy
El Paso is also seeing alternative forms of Alzheimer’s care which takes a person-centered approach to addressing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Danny Garcia is the head of Creative Therapies at Milagro Healthcare Services, a local non-profit organization that provides care for elder veterans. Garcia uses music reminiscence therapy to help stimulate memory recall and other benefits.
“I would facilitate music preferred from their youth or with some significance to them and recreate it live to elicit memories which could aid with goals such as speaking complete sentences, respiratory comfort, altering position from poor trunk support which is common in advanced stages of Alzheimer’s and sustained eye contact,” Garcia said.
The National Institute of Health reports multiple studies have shown a clear link between music therapy and increased autobiographical recall in patients with dementia.
For more information on local resources visit the West Texas chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association’s web page
Article "High rates of dementia in Latino communities show importance of early diagnosis, support" by Summer Masoud in Borderzine 2019.
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