The effect of ever-increasing life expectancy on global demographics has had a significant impact on many professional landscapes, not only in social services and healthcare but more broadly. This instrumental case study explores professional healthcare musicians’ work through their collaborative, socially engaged music-making practice in eldercare hospital wards. Two healthcare musicians were interviewed, and their work and professional practices were observed in the infection and orthopedic wards of an arts-promoting eldercare hospital. The empirical material was analyzed using thematic analysis, and finalized by instrumentalizing the case through the theoretical lens of gerotranscendence and music professionalism. The findings of the study open up a diversified understanding of aging as a transformative process of change and development, and reveal how professional music practices can support a holistic care and healthcare approach. Furthermore, it is discovered that healthcare musicians’ work as a socially engaged approach to professionalism reframes musicianship as part of an expanding professionalism, and calls for further development of higher music education as well as in-service training in the field of music.

不断增长的预期寿命对全球人口结构的影响对许多专业领域产生了重大影响，不仅在社会服务和医疗保健领域，而且在更广泛的领域。这个工具性案例研究通过他们在老年护理医院病房的协作、社会参与音乐制作实践来探索专业医疗保健音乐家的工作。采访了两位医疗保健音乐家，并在一家艺术促进老年护理医院的感染病房和骨科病房观察了他们的工作和专业实践。使用主题分析对经验材料进行分析，并通过老年超越和音乐专业精神的理论镜头对案例进行工具化来最终确定。研究结果开启了对衰老作为变化和发展的变革过程的多元化理解，并揭示专业音乐实践如何支持整体护理和医疗保健方法。此外，人们发现医疗音乐家的工作作为一种社会参与的专业方法，将音乐能力重新定义为不断扩大的专业精神的一部分，并呼吁进一步发展高等音乐教育以及音乐领域的在职培训。