The video features multiple hospice staff and family members sharing testimonies about the role of music therapy in hospice and palliative care. Speakers describe music therapy as a constant companion that addresses the psychosocial needs of patients, helping to quiet agitation and facilitate a "good death." A personal anecdote highlights a custom‑written song, "My Boys," created for a patient's mother, illustrating how music can capture and preserve cherished emotions for families. The hospice emphasizes its comprehensive services—home care, hospice, and palliative care—stating that they meet patients and families where they are and aim to make the end‑of‑life experience as comfortable as possible. Overall, the content underscores music therapy’s therapeutic, emotional, and relational benefits within a holistic hospice model.
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I feel like for me personally, music has always been the friend that never goes away. Music is so interwoven into so many aspects of who we are and how we are in this life. It can look really different from person to person. I think music therapy is Music therapy fits really beautifully into the hospice model in general because it addresses the psychosocial side of a person. Being able to add in this element of music therapy really broadens the level of care we can provide to our hospice patients and their families.
Music therapy is the difference between what we call a good death and a difficult one. It can quiet the person's soul, quiet their demeanor, quiet their struggle. They're able to, to transition without that difficulty or without that agitation.
Sarah has written a song for my mom called My Boys, and it's mom's view of what's most important to her, and it just kind of brings those thoughts or Emotions to life. It's something that one day when the good Lord calls Mom home, that I could look back and reflect on and, and be able to think about her and what I meant to her, what my son meant to her too.
I know the days ahead may be filled with heartache, but know that I'll always be with you.
I know that you will feel alone, We are the only hospice that provides hospice care, home care, palliative care, and we meet our patients and families where they are.
They do everything they can to, to try to make us as a family as comfortable as possible with our situation.
We do hospice, and that's what we do, and we do it well because that is all we do.
We as a profession do what we do not just because it feels good and sounds good and is nice to be with people, but because science proves that it works. I feel really grateful to be able to do what I do.
