Group: iPods help nursing home residents
Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | Marilyn Richter, 75, of Uniondale, has been a resident in A Holly Patterson Nursing Home in Uniondale since 2004. She enjoys listening to all types of music but says her favorite genre is country.
A man who hardly ever moves begins to tap his toes. A woman who cannot speak a coherent sentence starts singing the lines of a song, word for word. A seriously ill patient on pain medication finds his dosage needs to be decreased.
These and other beneficial effects of personalized music are being documented at local nursing homes as part of a pilot program by Music & Memory, a Mineola nonprofit...
