Sam Murray - Goodwin Living - Music Therapy For Meaningful Human Connection And Interaction

Sam Murray, MT-BC, CADDCT, CDP, is a Music Therapist at Goodwin Living ( https://goodwinliving.org/ ), a non-profit senior living and healthcare organization, located in Northern Virginia, that serves more than 2,500 older adults in the National Capital Region (Northern Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland) and more than 25,000 older adults across the nation who participate in their brain health programs.

Sam and her team are exploring novel ways to help residents living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia connect with through music therapy programs. With approximately 7 million Americans facing Alzheimer's today, and the eventual loss of communication that they experience, music therapy is becoming more widely acknowledged by many experts as a viable way to communicate with individuals for whom language is no longer enough, helping to re-establish comfort and connection.

Goodwin Living’s foundation recently invested in a new instrument called the Crdl ( https://www.crdl.com/ ) that helps translate physical touch into music, in essence transforming a person's body into an instrument, for an entirely new concept in communications and human interaction.

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