Question # 1
How can music help people with dementia to feel joy?
Listening to music helps people feel joy
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https://www.england.nhs.uk/blog/music-and-dementia-a-powerful-connector/
Familiar music triggers patients living with dementia to smile, move and even dance.
https://www.nursenextdoor.com.au/blog/how-music-can-help-with-dementia/
Music can help improve depression and aggression
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https://www.england.nhs.uk/blog/music-and-dementia-a-powerful-connector/
Question # 2
How can music help people with dementia to stimulate memory and learning?
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.00160/full
The intervention with music improves cognitive function in people living with dementia.
Our sensory experiences as human beings are connected with our memories. For people with dementia or other cognitive impairments, often those associations remain even if other elements of their memory are impaired and impacted.
You could play a piece of music that holds meaning to themand that memory is going to be triggered.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/music-therapy-improves-well-being-in-people-with-dementia-and-caregivers
A large number of studies claim that music intervention has positive effects on behavior, agitation, mood, and cognition in dementia.
https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2017-june/music-and-dementia-an-overview
https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2017-june/music-and-dementia-an-overview
The aim of music therapy in people with dementia is to address emotions, cognitive powers, thoughts, and memories - to stimulate them and bring them to the fore.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/blog/music-and-dementia-a-powerful-connector/
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There are many stories and examples where music in care homes and in institutions is extraordinarily effective at bringing people together and stimulating memories
Question # 3
How can music help people with dementia connect with people?
Music helps people with dementia connect with caregiversfor example through eye contact with caregivers, interest, focus, and calmness.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/music-therapy-improves-well-being-in-people-with-dementia-and-caregivers
Question 4
What can you do to prepare for using music with people living with dementia?
Find out what type of music and which type of instruments
the person with dementia enjoys listening to.
https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/emotional-health/music-as-medicine-alzheimers-dementia
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https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/emotional-health/music-as-medicine-alzheimers-dementia
Find out where and when the person with dementia would like to experience music
Other questions to ask people with dementia
What does music mean to you?
What do you think about singing?
In what way is music important to you?
https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2017-june/music-and-dementia-an-overview
Questions to ask families, staff, and therapists of people with dementia
after they have been listening to music or have been singing? How do you know if music is meaningful to people with dementia?
https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2017-june/music-and-dementia-an-overview
What changes and responses do you observe in people with dementia