The Palm Beach Music Therapy Institute (PBMTI) offers a full-time music therapy program at Hospice by the Sea, in Boca Raton, FL.
The program is focused on providing music therapy services to patients and families in several of the hospice inpatient units. In
addition, PBMTI Music Therapists support the bereavement department through involvement with Camp Good Grief. PBMTI also offers
presentations, staff support, and contributes to the interdisciplinary team meetings weekly. PBMTI Music Therapists are a part of
developing the Complementary Therapies Program at Hospice by the Sea. Patients, family members, and staff have already seen the
benefits of incorporating music therapy into the hospice care. See the Lifesong page for more
information on our music therapy programs for medical settings.
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| "Music therapy is a wonderful non-medicinal way of providing relaxation and reducing pain. The patients have responded with increased alertness at
times, and decreased fear and anxiety. It is also an excellent tool for life review. Music therapy is an integral part of the interdisciplinary team!" |
— Randee Silverstein, MSW, Social Worker, Hospice by the Sea
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| "If that doesn't relax you, nothing will!" |
— Hospice patient, 86, brain cancer
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| "I didn't feel pain anymore – I didn't think about it at all the whole time she was playing music!" |
— Hospice patient, 72, ovarian cancer
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| "The songs were soothing, comforting, and relaxing. Thank you so much." |
— Card from family of 84 yr old female pt with CVA
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| "This is just what I needed." |
— Hospice patient, 92, mouth cancer
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| "This is the best medicine for me." |
— Hospice patient, 73, amyotrophic sclerosis
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| "I forgot how powerful music can be." |
— Patient spouse, patient, 56 lung cancer
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| "I feel the music therapy program is important in helping the patient to die peacefully. I feel it provides a form of
communication that other ways may not provide, and because of this, it may reach patients and families in ways we can't.
Overall, it's one more tool we now have to reach patients and families" |
— Bridget Ripoll, MSW, Social Worker, Hospice by the Sea
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| "Patients and families have responded positively to the music therapy program. Patients that had been agitated, relax.
Patients that are private have been able to communicate in a less intrusive manner - and families are able to smile
through their sadness." |
— Brenda Shepherd, MFT, Marriage and Family Therapist, Hospice by the Sea
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