Use music for difficult situations

• Video Description

  This video shows how music can be used to help residents manage difficult and distressing situations.

• Strategies

  • Put a resident’s playlist on in the background during personal care or medical procedures to alleviate stress

  • Use music actively during difficult daily tasks through ‘caregiver singing’: well-known songs with improvised words relevant to the task in hand

  • Put lively music on in the background or improvise a song to encourage residents to ‘get up and go’

  • Use relaxing music to instil calm before and during mealtimes, at ‘sundowning’ and to help with sleep