Dan Cohen
Dan Cohen, MSW, founder and CEO of Right To Music, advocates for integrating best practice music-based interventions into healthcare, especially long-term care and for all persons with dementia. He founded Music & Memory, a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of personalized music to improve the lives of the elderly and infirm. The therapeutic outcomes of his work are portrayed in the Sundance audience award-winning documentary, "Alive Inside.” He has presented at numerous healthcare and dementia caregiver conferences in the U.S. and abroad. Seeking widespread adoption of music-based interventions globally, he is focused on: changing healthcare policy, modifying curriculum of future healthcare professionals, and raising public awareness.
