Music therapy provides connection, relief for patients living with dementia

Behavioral changes are some of the most challenging conditions of dementia to treat, said Concetta Tomaino, DA, LCAT, MT-BC, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in Mount Vernon, New York. During an appointment, with an “intelligent, successful” frontotemporal dementia patient from France, Tomaino and the patient’s neurologist watched the woman run around the room in an increasingly agitated state. Dementia made her “incredibly restless,” recalled…