Music in the Third Age

With this group of patients chosen at La Manuelita Foundation, my main objective has been to learn how to establish an environment with the right tools to foster transcendental experiences through an artistic branch inherent to human beings, music. Within La Manuelita I found myself facing great challenges: Would I be able to guide the grandparents to have a special musical experience that would connect them with themselves and contribute to their sense of life by establishing a relationship of affection, love and respect? Would I be able to investigate deeply about them? Would I be able to understand and explain the interpersonal relationships that are present between us and how these relationships intervene with the musical work? The answer took several weeks to come. After some difficult beginnings where I lacked ideas to achieve my goals, I found myself. In the blink of an eye this interesting journey took off.