Preventive Music Therapy As A Medicine Form

Preventive music therapy as a medicine form

In healthy active aging aspects to achieve well -being, in order to improve the quality of life during the aging stage, increasing sociability, communication, interaction with others, levels of participation and active listening, active listening, active,maintaining autonomy and cognitive abilities. In addition, the music therapist is not a manager, but a guide during the process. Heliana Rofrano (2007) defines preventive music therapy as "the application of the benefits of music therapy before the disease is installed and deteriorates in the integral health of the subject".

Some authors have proposed to change the term of preventive music therapy, since it is not a therapeutic intervention, but preventive. Proposing terms such as "Musicoprevention" (Helian.

In this case, preventive music therapy has been applied in order to weaken the progress in the deterioration of diseases and as a consequence, provide quality of life in the people of the group, good relationships and interaction, participation and interpersonal support with the restof residents, promoting their self – esteem, facilitating their potential development and individual qualities, their (ABVD), their care, etc. (positive health).

From the framework of preventive music therapy, at the end of the intervention process, some improvement in the group’s mood has been achieved, even one of the users who did not attend the first sessions due to apathy and reluctant, actively came toAll sessions since it began to go down to session (a month after starting the MT process).

Another users during the last month had feelings of sadness due to a family situation and commented that he liked to attend MT sessions because he saw that his state in general improved. The group in the last sessions has been more participatory, possibly thanks to the bond of trust that has been created and the sense of freedom and expression that has been given to the created space.

 The results obtained in the last session have been satisfactory, group users comment that the sessions have liked them and sometimes at the end they were more lively, happier, singing most of the time. It is a process in which time and experience make a difference, at first the coldest group was seen, more distant, there have been some discussions between them, and the sessions had a more managerial character at the beginning, but as theMusicotherapeutic process, this type of sessions flowed more naturally and more unity was appreciated in the group and a stronger link, where they talked about their experiences with confidence. They have made their space music the space.