How music is found, to work, just like art! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Other than the Taiwan Museum Organization’s starting the “Social Prescription” for problems caused by the aging community: Alzheimer’s, dementia, loneliness, depression, and the like, the national symphony NSO also started working hand-in-hand with the hospital on the “musical prescription”, through the neurologists writing out the prescriptions, inviting the patients of Alzheimer’s, of depression, and other mental conditions, and their caretakers to enter into the concert halls to the performances. The experts reminded, that there is a need for more elderly daycare centers in Taiwan, to help the elderly stay busy during the daytime, so they don’t become insomniac at night, and it can make the family members at ease when they work.
The C.E.O. of the NSO, Kuo stated, that after the hospital assigned the prescriptions, the patient, the caretaker, the members of the medical profession can get the tickets by showing the prescription slips, and, sit with the members of the regular audience to enjoy the concerts, and, there’s no specified section singled out. For two years, the group already received more than a hundred of “concert prescriptions”, the patient would fill out an evaluation form after they went to the concerts, return to the treatment sessions with their neurologists, and the NSO also conducts a questionnaire. Kuo found, that music therapy had a good outcome, hoping, that the group will get to work with more medical facilities and nursing homes in the future.
The Lincoln Center hosted a free jazz concert for the demented, while the Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall also had the “Care for Depression Concert”, working with the N.T.U. Hospital and the Depression Prevention Foundation.
And so, this art and music therapy had been proven, effective in getting the demented elderly out in the public, so they don’t get isolated, and deteriorate quicker, and it’s a good program.
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