title: Music therapy in palliative care.
abstract: Initial observations regarding the use of music therapy at one hospital in the palliative care of patients with advanced malignant disease are presented. In the hands of a trained music therapist, music has proven to be a potent tool for improving the quality of life. The diversity of its potential is particularly suited to the deversity of the challenges - physical, psychosocial and spiritual - that these patients present.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009147:Music Therapy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*