Music therapy uses music to address the needs of palliative care patients and their families. It assesses patients' strengths and needs to design treatment plans that provide pain management, emotional support, and spiritual support through non-invasive means. Music therapy integrates patients' musical preferences and cultural backgrounds to respect their dignity and celebrate their lives. It can reduce physical symptoms like pain and shortness of breath as well as alleviate feelings like depression, fear, and anxiety.

1. Music
Therapy
Merielle Czarina Fuentes BSN3
La Salle University

3. the use of music to
address the needs of
patients and families;
provides pain
management and
emotional and spiritual
support for patients

5. Best features
assesses the strengths and
needs of the patient and
designs a plan of treatment
offers a compassionate and
non-invasive approach to
end of life care

6. integrates patients’
musical preferences with
their cultural background
and spiritual beliefs to
respect their dignity and
celebrate their lives

7. Music Therapy
and Palliative Care

8. Music therapy is used to:
Reduce physical symptoms of
pain, agitation and shortness
of breath
Address and alleviate feelings
of depression, fear, isolation,
disorientation, confusion,
anxiety, loss of control, loss of
independence and loneliness

9. Provide emotional support
to families
Provide opportunities for
meaningful interactions
among family members
Discover meaning from the
dying process

10. Provide respiratory
entrainment and alleviation of
anxiety during removal from
ventilators
Leave a legacy
Inspire life review
Support spiritual beliefs and
practices
Improve quality of life

11. Music therapy provides the most
benefit to patients who:
Lack social interaction or
sensory stimulation
Experience pain and
symptoms that are difficult to
control through traditional
medical interventions
Feel anxious or are affected
by dementia

12. Look for a concrete way to
cope or to define or articulate
feelings or thoughts
Face communication
problems due to physical or
intellectual impairments
Need spiritual support,
possibly involving other
family members
Enjoy music to enhance their

15. Thank you!!
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