Who benefits?

As a Certified Music Practitioner, I offer live therapeutic music to the critically and chronically ill, the elderly and dying.

​One of the participants at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church last night asked if my music also reached others besides designated patients. 

Music and Conversation with Robin Gaiser at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Asheville NC on July 10, 2016

Yes, the music flows out into the hallways and I often have family members poke their heads into the room where I am offering music and ask if I can come to play/sing for their loved one. Of course, I try to do that. 

Wheelchairs regularly congregate outside the room of a patient receiving music. I see them out of the corner of my eye.  

Staff often remark how much they need the music, too, how it calms them. And  I notice that the housekeepers hang around longer tidying rooms, mopping floors when there is music present.