#171 Hospice Music Therapy: Bonus Episode
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
Core IM Team
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
What is the last sense to go? How can music create connection, ease anxiety, and help process emotions at the end of life? Join Dr. Jafar Al-Mondhiry, Dr. Harry Han, and music therapist Bryanna Tobin as they explore the power of music therapy in hospice care, sharing moving stories and clinical insights.
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Timestamps:
(00: 39) | 1st: What is Music Therapy in Hospice?
(07:59) | 2nd: A Powerful Story
(14:19) | 3rd: Challenges in the Field of Music Therapy
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. I am so excited today to bring you a special episode diving into the world of music |
| 0:06.1 | therapy, something I had no idea about until working on the Hospice 101 and 102 nuances |
| 0:12.0 | episode and was just blown away by the original interview we did with the music therapist. I think |
| 0:17.9 | anyone who listened to that original interview was like, oh, it's so good. It needs to be its own |
| 0:21.5 | episode. So without a further ado, I will hand it over to the great Dr. Joffere L. Mondry, a medical |
| 0:27.9 | oncologist, and Dr. Harry Hahn, a palliative care physician who did the original interview with |
| 0:33.0 | music therapist, Brianna Tobin. I hope you all will enjoy as much as we did. |
| 0:38.9 | So, Brianna, I'd love to get an introduction of what is your role on the interdisciplinary |
| 0:43.6 | team and how do you support our patients at the end of life? So basically my role on the team |
| 0:50.2 | is to work with families, to use music as the medium to achieve a goal, a clinical goal of |
| 0:57.5 | some kind. And it's really hard to make a blanket statement, but some examples of a goal that we |
| 1:02.1 | may be working to achieve are increased opportunities for relaxation, increased quality of life |
| 1:09.5 | and meaningful connection between family members. |
| 1:12.4 | Legacy projects. |
| 1:13.6 | Sometimes we work with individuals to write songs about their lives, to do autobiographical work, |
| 1:20.5 | or to do any number of things that can be emotionally processing, can be emotionally expressive. |
| 1:27.1 | So really, we come in as music therapists as a psychosocial support. emotionally processing can be emotionally expressive. |
| 1:34.8 | So really we come in as music therapists as a psychosocial support for the patient, for the families. |
| 1:47.3 | So music actually has this beautiful neurological power, right, to hold space, to hold things that are really hard for us to process. One of those things being what exactly it's like when somebody that you care about is on hospice care and when |
| 1:53.0 | they're approaching the end of their life. So I work on the interdisciplinary team directly with |
| 1:58.0 | families. And I also collaborate with the members of the interdisciplinary |
| 2:01.9 | team, so nurses and social workers and chaplains, any type of spiritual care member, child life |
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