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DEMENTIA / AGED CARE

Reducing anxiety in people with dementia

Program for aged care centres and for people with dementia and their carers, family and friends.

Staff from across the state recently learnt about the benefits of Alphamusic, a brain entrainment technique for reducing the level of agitation in people with dementia.

About 50 staff attended a day-long workshop in Brisbane to learn about the effect Alphamusic has on brainwaves states, which can be used to produce positive outcomes in behaviour management in people with dementia.

Created and composed by John Levine, Alphamusic is music specifically composed to change brainwave patterns from the beta stressed state to the alpha calm state. Co-presenter and Blue Care Kingscliff Gardens Aged Care Facility Diversional Therapist Sue Woods said she has had amazing results using Alphamusic and it is now her music of choice in high security dementia units. "We use it daily in our secure dementia units as an individual intervention in residents’ rooms and it also works wonders in promoting a calm, communal environment," she said. "I have found playing Alphamusic to be particularly beneficial for reducing residents’ anxiety as well as disruptive and noisy behaviours. "Alphamusic has also proven to be a valuable tool in palliative care, for both groups and individuals. "Workshop feedback was excellent and a number of attendees requested the workshop be repeated across the state so more staff could attend."

For Aged Care centres / therapists / Hospitals / Nursing homes / Dementia Wards
14 CDs Therapy Set (entire alphamusic collection) to use in therapy room, hospital wards, nursing homes and many other centres / practices to help people with dementia and aged care residents.

Set price: £364
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What you get:
- * free shipping
- * free cd sampler
- * free 1 hour consultation with John Levine
- * free T&I ebook
- * free 45 min mp3 download of Silence of Peace vol1
- * free ebooks on relaxation techniques
- * free ebooks on anxiety ans stress managment techniques
For individuals

Please check our samples page here and play the samples to the person with dementia. Choose the most appropriate cd / cds to play at your home.

If you need advice to choose the appropriate cds, please don' hesitate to email or call us.

TESTIMONIALS

USING ALPHAMUSIC IN RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE
An article by Sue Woods - Diversional Therapist

BACKGROUND

All of us who work with people with dementia have experienced the frustration of sourcing something, anything, to relieve agitation levels in our residents, particularly non-pharmacological interventions. While researching Meditation, I discovered John Levine’s Alphamusic. As the name suggests, Alphamusic is specifically composed to change brainwave patterns from the Beta state to the Alpha state. High Beta levels are associated with the “flight or fight response” producing symptoms of anxiety, whereas the Alpha state induces deep relaxation and encourages the brain to produce the “feel good hormones” such as serotonin and dopamine.

TRIAL

We purchased and trialled Alphamusic in our dementia secure units with very positive results. We created Feedback Sheets for the unit staff to comment on their observed results when they used Alphamusic compared to other music, in the secure units. Here are some of the results reported by staff:

“Sue, this music is fantastic. It has made a difference with the residents and me. Everybody was a lot less anxious. It even settled “B” (a resident presenting major agitation levels).”
“Sue, I put the [Silence of] Peace CD on about half an hour before tea and I had everyone, (except “D”), sitting at the dining tables. I didn’t have to chase anyone for tea. I love it.”
“Very settled this evening. Residents less likely to get upset with other residents’ noisy behaviour. Most sat quietly together for most of the shift. All settled for bed well”
“I have found Alphamusic particularly useful. When a resident is behaving in a disruptive manner, the music seems to keep the overall environment calm and the disruption does not spread to the others.”
“Exceptional in palliation. As an environmental management tool - very much noticed by visiting family members. It has positive effects on the unit staff as well as the residents.”

As a result of this trial, Alphamusic is now the daily music of choice in our secure dementia units. If you would like to know more about the effects of Alphamusic on other symptoms of stress and anxiety, I am available to deliver free talks to professional groups in all health modalities. Please contact me through FutureAge Care: ph 02 9877 5208 info@futureagecare.com

Sue Woods – Diversional Therapist

Client Testimonial – after John’s workshop – Australia, aged care

My name is Janine Carruthers and I am a Diversional Therapist. I recently attended a seminar on Alpha Music with John Levine. I had heard previously about alpha music through another DT Sue Woods who has been using alpha music successfully in her Residential Facility for some years and chose to go along and see what it was all about. After a 90 minute train ride I arrived at head office with a bad headache, related to stress and tension in the neck and shoulders, but once there, did not have the opportunity to take pain relief prior to the start of the seminar.

John played his music softly in the background during the seminar but within 30 minutes I noticed my headache had gone completely and I had not even noticed a change. Within 60 minutes the tension in my neck and shoulders was also gone. I thoroughly enjoyed the day and went home feeling better than I had in weeks.

With this in mind I decided that I needed to see for myself how this music might affect Residents. So… first thing in the morning I took my portable CD player and went to the room of a resident, I know to be restive and unsettled, calling out constantly. This Resident is bed bound and often non-verbal but makes loud moaning sounds that often disrupt the residents in surrounding rooms.

I placed the CD player in the residents room and put on the sample CD that came with the information and Testimonial Pack at the seminar. This CD is a 3 minute sample from each of the 14 CD’s John has produced. After starting the music I sat outside the resident’s room where I could see in but the resident was unable to see me and watched and noted down the resident’s reaction to each piece of music.

Within 1minute of the music starting I noticed an immediate cessation of the insistent calling out and before the end of the first track, noted a marked reduction in the resident’s body tension and movements. The residents had begun to relax and started listening to the music in earnest. The resident did not respond this way to all tracks and with varying degrees of success in other tracks but after listening to the CD from start to finish again remain relaxed and quiet for a further 2hours before resuming her restive behaviour and calling out. I also trialed the use of Alpha Music in the Dementia Unit where I played the CD with 6 residents with a variety of behaviours relating to their dementia. At this time, again using only the sample CD I also had good results. Different tracks affected residents in different ways. Those who where wanders remained seated and to some degree, settled. For the verbally disruptive residents there was a marked reduced the number of episodes of calling out and staff stated these people remained calm for a short time after the CD finished.

I feel that the return of behaviours could be lengthened by playing the full CD’s of the music most effective to Individual residents as at the time of the trial I only had access to the sample CD. I have since received CD’s and look forward to running further trials as to their usefulness.

I would like to see more education offered with regard to alpha music and have a greater variety of staff involved in this education, including Care Staff, Nursing and Clinical staff and Service Managers as I feel this could be very beneficial to all levels of care and not limited to Residential care only.

Thank You for the opportunity to participate in this seminar.
Janine Carruthers
Diversional Therapist

Client Testimonial – after John’s workshop – Australia, aged care

Hi John,
Thanks for the opportunity to attend the Alphamusic workshop.

And just to give you some feedback of my own; I received some CD's for my own use. I took them with me on the following two afternoons when I worked in the Dementia Unit and enjoyed the lovely calm environment and co-operative residents.

Over the following days staff and residents in Hostel remarked on the lovely music. Yesterday at our high care facility one of our ladies was frustratingly disruptive with constant negative chatter during the activity and lunchtime newspaper reading. This is usual for this lady and we regularly ask her to stop but yesterday's episodes got to all staff and residents. Today I put the CD's on during the activity and lunchtime and not one word was spoken. It was unbelievable! Later as I passed through the dining room I came across a gentleman still there. I offered to take him to the lounge or an area where he could watch the comings and goings and he said "no thanks, I just want to stay here and listen to this beautiful music". It is lovely background music and works well being played during activities. During Bingo today no one and especially those with hearing impairments appeared distracted or unable to focus except for the usual few who fall asleep anyway.
I intended to give one of the CD's that I have to my daughter who is studying teaching and also suffers from migraines. She has shown a lot of interest in it and the possibilities for the school environment. We also chatted about it's uses in her daughter's day care centre. It was also nice background music for my husband as he practiced his guitar playing. He is only a beginner.
I agree with Janine on the matter of training other staff. The comments vary and there are a few sceptics and of course we D.T.'s and Activities staff are not always available.
Anyway thanks again. I feel that Alphamusic will have a big impact as more people come to know of it.

Jen Booth
Diversional Therapist

Client Testimonial – after John’s workshop – Australia, aged care

Hi John,
It was nice talking with you the other day.

We have used your CD already with great effect. After attending the workshop, I brought the music into work the following Monday. That morning one of our young Cerebral Palsy clients arrived at the centre in a more “noisy” state than usual. This client communicates with loud grunting noises that can be quite distressing for other clients. After identifying that he didn’t seem to have any unmet needs, I suggested we seat him in his wheelchair near the CD player and play the CD. Up until this point, we could barely hear ourselves talk over his grunting. After only 2 minutes he was quiet, with a smile on his face. He stayed quiet listening to the music and seemed to not even notice when it changed tracks. After approx 20mins, we needed to move the client to attend to his hygiene, and he didn’t revert to be as loud as when he arrived. We again put the CD on in the afternoon for his enjoyment though he wasn’t particularly loud at that time, he certainly appeared to be very happy and smiled a lot.

We also put the CD on as background music when another group of young disability clients where doing indoor activities, and 2 staff commented that they seemed to stay on task with their activity longer and the whole group seemed calmer.

I will definitely get some of the CD’s in the future; as I am keen to trial these with other clients attending our centre, who have challenging behaviours. I am also keen to let their carers know about Alpha Music.

Good luck with the future workshops.

Regards, Karin

Karin Higgs
Respite Coordinator