Therapeutic Uses: How Room 217 is Helping People
Room 217 Therapeutic Music Resources support, comfort, soothe, relax and encourage sleep for those facing stress, illness, grief and suffering.
…. are ideal for hospices, parents, children, caregivers, volunteers, music, massage and recreational therapists, lactation consultants, hospitals, long term care facilities, nurses, parish nurses, teachers, daycares, churches, funeral and bereavement services, synagogues and more.
Room 217 CDs Are Currently Being Used:
For Soothing Relief
- relaxation – massage therapy, healing touch, therapeutic touch
- calming – Alzheimer’s and Aquired Brain Injury patients, primary students, asthma attacks
- sleep – assistance in falling asleep i.e. infants, children, adults, seniors
- destress – caregivers, others
- comfort – the dying and their families
For Spiritual Encouragement
- meditation, contemplation
- worship
- spiritual support
As a Supportive Resource
- rejuvenating care providers - front-line health care professionals – doctors, nurses, ICU or palliative nurses, massage, recreation, or music therapists, child-life workers, social worker - used in medical Code Lavenders to care for the care team
- palliative care
- grief and bereavement support
- program resource – front line health care workers i.e. nurses, music therapists, recreation therapists
- Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS, Aquired Brain Injury
- passive therapy - Cerebral Palsy
- pain distraction or distraction during treatments - burn units, oncology units, neonatal units, cardiac units, critical care units, Alzheimer’s/dementia care units
- psychotherapy to access, reminisce, life review
- tinnitus relief
- yoga instruction
- pilates instruction
- convalescence and rehabilitation
- coma stimulation
- chaplains – visitation gift, quiet rooms, during services
- funeral homes – preplanning, wakes, services
- background music – to paint, study, sew, or write to
- enroute to/from chemotherapy appointments
- daycare sleep routines
- for use by caregivers, families, children and siblings
- background music - treatment, surgery, recovery and waiting rooms, mental health facilities
- background music - organ transplant transition and recovery rooms
- pet companionship
- pet bereavement
For Other Purposes
- library loan
- in memoriam gifts
- care basket items