Kerry Burke – interview

Kerry Burke’s 60-minute interview covers his training in Capilano College’s fledgling music therapy program in the late 1970s and subsequent employment in an innovative multi-discipline rehabilitation therapy program for geriatric psych patients at Valleyview Hospital (Riverview). The interview provides rich detail about the Valleyview program, Moyra Jones, the patients he worked with, and the institutional response to the new therapy regime .

Key Words: music therapy, music therapy education, music therapy education, Capilano College, Capilano University, history, spirituality in aging, aging, seniors, dementia, Alzheimers, rehabilitations, gerontology, mental health, mental health patients, geriatric patients, geriatric psychiatry, dementia therapy, creative arts therapy.