Abstract
Introduction: According to Berliner (1888), hearing voices in the groove would be “like holding community with immortality.” It is this interactive and introspective feature of phonograph sound that makes Music Therapy by Phonograph (MTP thereafter) effective especially to the elderly with dementia.Methodology: A phonograph (HMV 102) and carefully selected 78 rpm records were presented to produce the sound ambience of early 1930s and 1940s. Narrative-Based Medicine was conducted to observe the effects of MTP.Case presentation: A total of 50 MTP sessions were directed by the author from June 2014 to July 2015. There were 14 residents with different levels of dementia in two group homes in Seto, Japan.Discussion: MTP facilitated especially two elders’ narratives to a point that there were many stories that only the author gained access. Details of these narratives will be elaborated using quantitative (length of talk) and qualitative (prosody, lexicon) analysis.Conclusions: Every MTP session enlightened oth...
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