| Research
And Evidence Base
Over the last 20 years a wide variety of rigorous studies have shown how music therapy can make a positive impact on individuals emotional, social, spiritual and physical well-being. Since its inception, The Towersey Foundation has successfully piloted music therapy posts for child and adult palliative care units throughout the UK. The success of these posts is borne out in feedback from those working alongside music therapists: "...music
works on many different levels...it’s a shared journey of
anger or vulnerability or glimpses of hope, and I think that accompanying
with individuals in this way has been of enormous benefit to them..." "...it
brought them together more as a group... one lady cried at one point,
and another patient went to comfort her... it was very powerful
what the music was doing with helping these people to support each
other..." "...there
can be no doubt of the power of music to intervene on many levels,
in many lives, when a person is facing a life threatening illness..." Recent Papers Multidisciplinary perspectives
of music therapy in adult palliative care, Palliative Medicine
2007; 21: 235-241 
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