ArticleThe Gerontologist2020
Using Music to Develop a Multisensory Communicative Environment for People with Late-Stage Dementia.
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- Analysing the use of music to facilitate social interaction in care home residents with dementia: Narrative synthesis systematic review.Dementia (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
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- RadioMe: an automated home-based radio, music playlist, and diary reminder system: Report on recruitment, music compilation, and listening, and preliminary testing of heart rate activated music.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Feasibility of adolescent musicians in delivering Project Unmute, a virtual, intergenerational active music-based intervention for older adults with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.International journal of music, health, and wellbeing · 2024Article
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- Exploring the factors influencing meaningful engagement of persons living with advanced dementia through the Namaste Care Program: a qualitative descriptive study.Palliative care and social practice · 2023Article
- Person-attuned musical interactions (PAMI) in dementia care. Complex intervention research for constructing a training manual.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Project Unmute: A Digital Music Program Delivered by Adolescent Musicians to Older Adults with Cognitive Decline.Journal of intergenerational relationships · 2022Article
- Music Connects Us: Development of a Music-Based Group Activity Intervention to Engage People Living with Dementia and Address Loneliness.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Arts-based interventions for people living with dementia: Measuring 'in the moment' wellbeing with the Canterbury Wellbeing Scales.Wellcome open research · 2021Article
- Singing and music making: physiological responses across early to later stages of dementia.Wellcome open research · 2021Article
- Development of the Video Analysis Scale of Engagement (VASE) for people with advanced dementia.Wellcome open research · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesResearch has indicated the benefit of music interventions on biological, psychological, and cognitive aspects of dementias, yet there is limited research focusing on music's role in communication. This study developed a conceptual understanding of how people with late-stage dementia may express themselves nonverbally and interact with others during a live music group over time. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsEight people with advanced dementias in residential care (aged 82-97 years), four care staff, and three musicians participated in 8-hr-long weekly live Music for Life sessions and listened to 1-hr-long recorded music session. Visual grounded theory was used to analyze video data collected nonintrusively via the Fly 360-degree camera.
resultsThe live music group facilitated a multisensory communicative environment allowing for verbal and nonverbal communicative actions, social interactional components and agency to develop over time. These aspects were influenced by three factors: time, one-to-one interaction within a group setting and the characteristics of the music. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Nonverbal communication in later-stage dementia may be overlooked or underestimated by busy care staff and families. Using music as an interactive way to communicate can help develop mirroring and turn-taking which has been shown to improve quality of life for people with communication impairment, increase their nonverbal communication and allow for a connection to be built between people. Although further research is recommended, individuals responsible for residential care should feel confident that the development of ongoing music groups for this population is warranted as part of ongoing care.
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