INSTITUCIONALNA GLAZBENA TERAPIJA: IZAZOVI U RADU SA STARIJIM I NEMOĆNIM OSOBAMA
INSTITUTIONAL MUSIC THERAPY: CHALLENGES IN WORKING WITH THE ELDERLY AND INFIRM PERSONS

Summary/Abstract: Previous research has shown that music therapy is extremely successful in working with the elderly and infirm persons as it contributes to their sense of community and acceptance. Nursing homes within Dubrovnik city area have recognized the health benefits of music therapy. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the challenges that music therapists face within institutions in relation to the recognition of the profession, financial and educational support, status issues and features as well as the quality of their competencies. Archival research methods, analysis, synthesis, and mapping is applied in this paper. Nine key challenges that members of this health profession face within their work were mapped through the analysis of the report on institutional music therapy for residents of nursing homes within the area of Dubrovnik during 2018 and 2019. In order to strengthen this supportive activity, it is necessary to invest a lot more effort, especially to ensure institutional and national support and qualified lifelong education of music therapists. It is necessary for the profession (medical, rehabilitation, music) to recognize music therapy as an independent method in working with various vulnerable groups. This paper tries to contribute to the establishment of music therapy and therapists in this sense, especially in working with the elderly and infirm persons

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