Our society is rapidly aging, and the number of older adults around the world has reached historically unprecedented levels. As a result, the issue of caring for our elders has become as important as ever. This book is an account of how the student volunteer organization Harvard-Radcliffe MIHNUET (Music in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Using Entertainment as Therapy) has recently taken an innovative, participatory approach to music-making with elderly in nursing homes and hospitals through a project called Crooners. Crooners is a subset of MIHNUET that conducts sing alongs with the elderly. Our...