Abstract
Music is a many-splendoured thing. We can find it everywhere in our environment as an enrichment, an entertainment or a recreation which affects our mind, body and emotions. The evocative power of music is immense. It can bring to our imagination stories, places, people — in the past and the present. At many different levels music brings a message to each of us, irrespective of education, age or physical state. Van de Wall advocated as early as 1936 that:
The hospitalized patients should enjoy music as a cultural and social interest and occupation that is entirely divorced in their minds from concepts of illness. The sheer contact with efficient and sensible musicians and with an art that, like fresh air, sunshine and flowers introduces in the ward elements of joyful cultural and social living, has value in improving the quality of his life and pervades it with ideas, feelings and events which are part of normal social life at its best.
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Alvin, J. (1991). The value of music to the long-term patient. In: Denham, M.J. (eds) Care of the Long-Stay Elderly Patient. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3380-5_13
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