Musiktherapie in Hospizarbeit und Palliative Care

Martina Baumann, Dorothea Bünemann

Music therapy in Hospice Work and Palliative Care
With a preface by Rolf Verres

(Musiktherapie in Hospizarbeit und Palliative Care)

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To be published approx. October 2009
Approx. 190 pp.
List price approx. 24.90 Euro
(978-3-497-02107-9) paperback

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Finale of Life

• Improving patients’ quality of life of with music
• Accompanying seriously ill and dying patients with music therapy
• Many case studies from practical experience

Seriously ill patients at a hospice or at a palliative care facility often suffer from the fact that the last days of their lives are characterised by medical technology and by maintaining the most important physical functions. In this stressful situation music can be soothing and music therapy is able to significantly improve the quality of life. The authors talk about many case studies from their rich practical experience and how to deploy music therapy at hospice and palliative care facilities in an atmospheric way for the good of the patients. They give hints how to negotiate obstacles in clinical everyday-life and how to get doctors, nursing staff and relatives involved. They also show how to pick up and deal with the need for spirituality and meaningful experiences of all parties involved and how to convey comfort in a musical way.

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Target group
Music therapists, psychologists, doctors, nursing staff and honorary helpers in hospice and palliative care facilities

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The authors
Graduate music therapist Martina Baumann, Heidelberg, Hypnotherapist (M.E.I.), works at hospice and palliative care facilities and at further education facilities, also as a visiting lecturer at Heidelberg university.
Graduate psych., graduate gerontol.Dorothea Bünemann, Heidelberg, runs her own surgery as a music therapist, gestalt therapist (DVG) and psychotherapist (HP) and works at further education facilities.