A “Strong Intervention”: How Personalized Music Helped Lemon Grove Cut Antipsychotic Use in Half

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A “Strong Intervention”: How Personalized Music Helped Lemon Grove Cut Antipsychotic Use in Half

"Whenever Judy Ely sits down with a new resident at the Lemon Grove Care Center to learn about his or her favorite foods, she also asks about a different sort of preference: What kind of music do you love? Director of Dietary Services for the San Diego long-term-care and rehabilitation complex, Ely is the driving force behind the 152-resident facility’s Music & Memory iPod program. “I speak to our residents every day,” says Ely. “I know how much it would mean to me, to be able to hear my personal music favorites if I lived here. The iPod program is part of our company’s ongoing efforts to make a positive difference in the lives of our residents.” 

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The Right to Enslave

Chains of Slavery. Photograph by xomiele.

The Right to Enslave

"It seems that even some Democrats are beginning to cave on the Obama Administration’s contraceptive policy that requires religious hospitals etc. with secular, non-church member employees to carry health insurance that covers contraceptives. I think we’d better clear up their confusion."

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