Resources

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Wisconsin Resources:

• Wisconsin Representatives of Activity Professionals (WRAP)
   
• Wisconsin Chapter for Music Therapy (WCMT)
   
• WI Department of Health Services Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Resources
   
• MUSIC & MEMORY^SM
   
• Wisconsin Board on Aging and Long Term Care, Ombudsman Program
   
• Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Wisconsin Chapter
   
• Alzheimer’s Association, Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter
   
• Alzheimer’s Association, South Central Wisconsin Chapter
   
• Alzheimer's & Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin
   
• Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute

News Articles:

• Study breaks blood-brain barriers to understanding Alzheimer's
   
• Alzheimer Society's iPod Project offers music to soothe troubled souls
   
• British health official: Cure for dementia could come by 2020
   
• Get the Facts about Antipsychotic Drugs and Dementia Care
   
• Long-term care physicians respond to report on antipsychotic over-prescribing
   
• Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at Risk
   
• Nursing homes temper their reliance on drugs
   
• Reassessments, respect spark antipsychotic-reduction success, providers told
   
• Rebecca Mead: New Ways to Care for People with Dementia : The New Yorker
   
• State-bound study says singing may aid Alzheimer's disease, dementia 
   
• Withdrawal versus continuation of chronic antipsychotic drugs for behavioral and psychological symptoms in older people with dementia

Journals:

• Listening to Religious Music and Mental Health in Later Life, Oxford Journals