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HONORING SENIORS
Music
Around Us
Bach
gave us God’s Word
Mozart
by Dr. Jeremy Brown gave us God’s Laughter
Beethoven
Music is all around us. Think about hospice care in our area for the gave us God’s Fire
the last commercial you saw on past 32 years here on the South God
television or the jingle that just Plains, Hospice of Lubbock is
played on the radio. Remember your engaging that pioneer spirit gave us MUSIC that we
wedding? I’ll bet there was music. And once again by enhancing our might pray without words
in this digital age in which we live, ministry of patient and family
we have access to almost any piece care through music therapy. Any ~ From a German Opera House
of music ever written or recorded. ADDITIONAL money raised
If I were to ask you your favorite above and beyond our average
concert ever attended, I imagine you amount raised from years social worker, a CNA to assist with
could give me an answer in about past will go to help fund our Music personal care, volunteer, and grief
30 seconds. Music is personal and, Therapy program. and bereavement services for family
yet, provides an opportunity for members before and after the patient’s
shared experiences. Music provides Research has shown that music death. Adding a Music Therapist to
a connection to the soul that often can help ease pain and anxiety, the team will strengthen and enhance
cannot be explained. and also help re-establish, even
if only temporarily, cognitive the care and compassion we are able
Beans, Music, and Ministry: Three connections that might have been to provide patients and families. Not
things you might not realize share lost in Alzheimer’s patients. Music only will we be able to integrate music
something in common. Therapists are more than just and its therapeutic components while
musicians playing an instrument patients are experiencing their end-of-
March 1, 2019 marks the 30th and/or singing a song. Their training life journeys, but the program will also
Annual Mayors’ Beans and integrates music into the therapeutic have a profound and lasting impact
Cornbread Luncheon that serves relationship to address behavioral, on their families for years to come.
as the major fundraising event for psychological and emotional issues. Music Therapy will play a significant
Hospice of Lubbock. For 30 years, It encompasses the very definition of role in child and adult bereavement
this community-supported event hospice care in that it ministers to the counseling, support groups, and kids’
has enabled Hospice of Lubbock mind, body, and spirit. grief camps, just to name a few.
to provide hospice care for every
hospice-appropriate patient, Hospice is built upon an Founded in 1987, Hospice of Lubbock
regardless of their funding status. interdisciplinary team approach. was the first hospice on the South
On this 30th anniversary, and in Each patient on service has equal Plains. Today, we remain Lubbock’s
celebration of being the pioneer of access to a physician, nurse, chaplain, only nonprofit hospice, as well as the
only one in the region that provides
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