Lifetime Living Magazine Fall 2016 | Page 11

PLAY VIDEO A single song can make a world of difference to an older adult living with dementia. Cibolo House Memory Care at Morningside Ministries at Menger Springs is a certified Music & MemorySM facility. Residents have access to individual iPod music players containing personalized music playlists featuring their favorite songs, providing them with a unique form of music therapy. Since the introduction of the Music and Memory program, residents at Cibolo House have become more engaged with their loved ones and staff members, with some even showing signs of reawakening forgotten memories. Music & MemorySM is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting music therapy in retirement and continuing care facilities with the hopes of it one day becoming a standard in long-term care senior living facilities. To date, the program has been successfully introduced to senior living communities located in all 50 U.S. states and six countries. To learn more about the Music and MemorySM program at Cibolo House, please visit www.mmliving.org