Musical Retirement

Musical Retirement

Author: Raymond Aaron

Publisher: 10-10-10 Publishing

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781772773750

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Looking for an alternative to the traditional retirement home? Welcome to Musical Retirement!Back Page Blurb: For many seniors, growing older means losing independence, friends, family, and even the home in which they raised their family. In Musical Retirement: Enjoy Your Senior Years, Ivgeni Kriger focuses on how music and associated musical activities can enrich the lives of seniors, from the newly retired to those dealing with chronic medical conditions. Using his experience as a musician and medical professional, Ivgeni shares a variety of tools and activities that any senior can use to add enjoyment to their lives. Along the way, he introduces us to his Musical Retirement home, a facility that incorporates music into all areas of life for seniors. Ivgeni also shares his experiences working with various retirement homes and long-term care facilities. He gives facility managers and activity coordinators a number of ways to incorporate musical activities into their facilities, thus adding to the quality of life for their residents. Ivgeni also focuses on using music to connect with seniors, both to help them express their emotions and connect with their past memories. His medical and musical experience demonstrates that music can be a great way to help those dealing with dementia or other memory issues. This energetic read can get your foot tapping, as you find new ways to incorporate music and its benefits into your life and the lives of your loved ones. Whether you or a loved one is looking for a retirement home, then Musical Retirement: Enjoy Your Senior Years may be the right option for you


Assisted Living

Assisted Living

Author: Rick Compton

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780692314975

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Welcome to Pelican Roost, a full service retirement home for those drifting into their twilight years... and further away from sanity. Pelican Roost is home to some very colorful characters, a place where buffoonery lives next door to screwball, just across the way from cockamamie. The show's host couple enters heaven, suspecting their son pulled the plug to get his hands on Dad's vintage Corvette. They don't seem to mind. Instead, instead they take the audience on a journey that celebrates memory loss, joint pain, and hearing aids. This vaudeville-esque revue will have "audiences laughing so hard they cry." -Associated Press


Music for Life

Music for Life

Author: C. Victor Fung

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 019060297X

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Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens presents a fresh, new exploration of the impact of musical experiences on the quality of life of senior citizens, and charts a new direction in the facilitation of the musical lives of people of all ages. Authors Fung and Lehmberg clearly define the issues surrounding music education, music participation, quality of life, and senior citizens, discussing the most relevant research from the fields of music education, adult learning, lifelong learning, gerontology, medicine, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies. At the heart of the book is Evergreen Town, a retirement community in the southeastern U.S.A., that serves as the backdrop for three original research studies. The first of these is in two phases, a survey and a focus group interview, that examines the histories and rationales for the music participations and non-participations of community residents. The second and third case studies take an in-depth look at a church choir and a bluegrass group, two prominent musical groups in the community, and include the perspectives of the authors themselves as group members and participant-observers. Fung and Lehmberg conclude with a challenge for the profession of music education: to act on this research and on the current advances in the field, to enable all people to benefit from the richness of music as a substantial contributor to quality of life.