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P3‐013: HARMONIZING TOGETHER: SPEECH AND MUSIC THERAPY AND SUPPORT FOR PATIENTS AND PARTNERS WITH PPA
Author(s) -
Quimby Megan,
Brandt Katie,
Shapiro-Gordon Joyce,
Wong Bonnie,
Grimm Madeline,
Dickerson Brad C.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2018.06.1368
Subject(s) - music therapy , feeling , aphasia , psychology , social support , rehabilitation , likert scale , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , medicine , physical therapy , developmental psychology , psychiatry , psychotherapist , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
The Frontotemporal Disorders Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, facilitated an eight-week interdisciplinary therapeutic support group targeted at early stage PPA patients and their care partners. Group goals included providing patients and their care partners with functional communication strategies, decreasing patient isolation, support for caregiver resilience and music therapy to promote utilization of language, social engagement and emotional connections between patients and care partners.