Rockin’ Out with Your Patients’ Favorite Music

Live Better Longer

Across the United States, FOX Rehabilitation works with older adult patients—65 years and older. In addition, we have many younger clinicians on our team who are still in their 20s and 30s. With this generational bouillabaisse in mind, we thought contacting popular music writer, author, and historian Joel Freimark would be a good idea. Here’s the premise of this week’s episode: Any older adult turning 65 this year would have been born in 1959, and it’s no secret that most teenagers come of age musically and discover their favorite artists, songs, and albums around the age of 16. With that formula in mind, anyone born in 1959 would have been 16 years old in 1975. (Are you with us so far?) Today, Joel’s job is to give clinicians some extra conversation fodder with their patients, by diving headfirst into 1975, revealing its best music stories, albums, and songs. So, the next time any PT, OT, or SLP sees a certain Peter Frampton album in a patient’s vinyl collection, they’ll know exactly why it’s there!