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Services
Palliative Care
Music therapy utilises tailored musical interventions like singing, guided imagery, and lyric analysis to alleviate physical pain, manage anxiety, and improve the overall quality of life for terminally ill patients and their families.
Comfort, connection, and dignity
Supporting physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs during serious illness and end-of-life care.
Whole-person support during serious illness
Music therapy engages the whole person, addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual challenges that often arise during end-of-life care.
Therapists evaluate a patient's musical preferences and physical capacities to customise sessions. Sessions might include playing or streaming familiar, comforting music to induce physiological relaxation. Therapists may encourage patients to play simple percussion instruments, sing, or engage in vocal improvisation to promote self-expression and connection with others. Sessions may also involve guiding patients in writing original songs or recording playlists to share with loved ones.
How We Help
What this service can support
Emotional Expression
Sessions offer a way to process difficult emotions (like fear, frustration, or grief) when words fall short.
Connection & Legacy
Music therapy allows patients and loved ones to bond, create lasting memories, and engage in meaningful end-of-life planning.
Caregiver Support
Music therapy can extend therapeutic benefits to family members and caregivers, helping reduce stress and anxiety before and after bereavement.
Who It Is For
Support wherever care is delivered
Music therapy in palliative care provides emotional and physical relief for patients at any stage of a serious illness. It can take place almost anywhere care is delivered, adapting to a patient's condition and environment, including hospice centres, hospitals, patients' own homes, and residential care facilities.
- People receiving palliative or end-of-life care
- People living with serious or terminal illness
- Families, loved ones, and caregivers needing emotional support
- People receiving care in hospice centres, hospitals, homes, or residential care facilities
In Practice
Music can hold what words cannot
Sessions may include familiar music, singing, simple percussion, vocal improvisation, guided imagery, playlist creation, songwriting, or recording meaningful music to share with loved ones.
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Our Approach
How support is delivered
Understanding needs
We consider the person’s illness, environment, physical capacity, preferences, and support goals.
Personalised sessions
Therapy is shaped around music that is familiar, comforting, meaningful, or emotionally supportive.
Family connection
Where appropriate, loved ones may be included to support bonding, shared memories, and legacy work.
Ongoing review
Support remains flexible and responsive as needs, energy levels, symptoms, and circumstances change.