STORIES LOVE MUSIC
The Joy of Creative Engagement for Caregivers,
is a program for Caregivers who care for Individuals living with Memory impairment.
STORIES LOVE MUSIC
The Joy of Creative Engagement for Caregivers,
is a free program for caregivers of those individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer’s.
For over 10 years, Stories Love Music has provided caregivers with the creative tools to manage the challenging behaviors of those they care for, as well as attend to their own stress management and self-care. Stories Love Music has empathy for the caregiver and created The Joy of Creative Engagement program using the interdisciplinary field of neuroarts to care for the caregivers.
Stories Love Music celebrates both music and story telling traditions in our history and their positive effects on emotional and physical health of our individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.
Individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer’s feel disconnected from the world around them. When we are isolated we wonder does anyone want to hear our stories? Music speaks right to our heart and our human experience. We all have stories to tell and music brings them to light. This is also true for CAREGIVERS, which is why Stories Love Music developed a program just for caregivers, The Joy of Creative Engagement for Caregivers.
Program Objectives
Reduce anxiety and depression of caregivers and individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Support caregivers in managing the reactive emotions of the individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer’s they care for and themselves.
Provide caregivers tools for their own self-care and their caregiving which prevents long term burnout.
-The Maryland Commission on Caregiving
“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many people music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can…to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
-Oliver Sacks (neurologist and author)
Learn how to bring the Stories Love Music program to your loved one.
Stories Love Music created “The Joy of Creative Engagement for Caregivers”, a program for professional and family caregivers who care for individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer’s. This program has also been utilized by recreational directors, nurses, home health aides, and all those who work in memory care communities.
Through donations and grants to Stories Love Music, the caregivers receive a free program that focuses on: How to treat their burnout and stress and how to apply creative tools to their caregiving day. The program blends music and storytelling, sparking the imagination and bringing us more fully into the present moment.
Read Article: Arts, Engagement and the Caregiver
Arts engagement and caring for the caregiver. Being able to connect these two ideas took some time but ended up being the key to the evolution of my work with Stories Love Music.
Having a conference or event?
Book Ilyana Kadushin (Executive Director of Stories Love Music) at your Conference or Event
This multimedia session will introduce the concepts of Stories Love Music and our mission with The Joy of Creative Engagement for Caregivers program. An interactive music concert will be integrated into this session.