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Music and Wellbeing
Music and
Dementia
advantages of music
- facilitates engagement with those around them
- help to recall positive memories/nostalgia
- can be a welcome distraction when feelings stressed or anxious.
- helps in calming people for sleeping or energising them
- helps to stop from wandering and avoid possible falls.
- many carers don't have the know-how of what to play.
- garrido et al. (2022) recommended having multiple playlists on hand (for specific users) and to track responses by situation over time.
why music?
- music is an ideal medium to examine older adult teaching and learning;
- music utilises a diverse range of cognitive and motor skills/requires simultaneous use of multiple parts of the brain and body.
- music offers older adults intellectual, emotional, and social benefits.
- regardless of age and mental status, older adults regard involvement in music as culturally and socially important.
- exercising neuroplasticity of the brain.
background
- in aus, the 65+ age category is the fastest growing.
- 18-64 population as remained constant
- life expectancy has increased by so have things that have negatively impact our daily life.
- dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australians
- estimated 472,000 Australians are currently experiencing dementia > this is expected to more than double by 2058.
- how can we best assist healthy aging/improve quality of life for older adults.
music and dementia
- music and memory: music that relates to their past can have evocative and strong memories.
- music is multisensory: visual, olfactory, gustatory.
- neurons in the brain wire into larger neural networks and link with one another
- the brain is able to re-route through other pathways that are connected or related to each other.
What is Music
Therapy?
background
- music has been used to promote health and well-being throughout history and all known human cultures (gouk, 2000; horden, 2001)
- music has been said to have healing powers > drumming for healing, ghana, harp music for healing (ancient greece)
- critiques: why should an aesthetic form of entertainment have health benefits?
around 1950s > music therapy was only supported through anecdotal evidence
- handful of studies that were poorly designed
music medicine vs music therapy
- music medicine: when music is used for therapeutic purposes by health professionals who do not have specific qualifications as a music therapist.
- music therapy: more specific set of practices requiring intensive training in professional programs that tend to be accredited by a national health association.
- experience in playing musical instruments, improvisation skills, and counselling and healthcare skills.
types of music therapy
- receptive: patient listens to recorded/live music in order to achieve a desired outcome (eg: reduced anxiety)
- most appropriate where active music participation is not possible.
- music experiences that are used for springboards of discussion
- active: creative participation in music-making by patients, individually or in groups.
- singing or playing instruments
- instruments range from accessible to more advanced
- benefits arrive spontaneously, engaging in an enjoyable activity that stimulates the reward centers in the brain, promotes cooperation, sense of accomplishment.
Music and
Mental Health
background
- in australia, suicide is the leading cause of death for people aged 18-25**
- costs the australian economy roughly $40-50 million dollars annually.
- 80-90% of young people do not get professional help.
where do they get help?
- 80% of people turn to music to cope with psychological distress.
- young people listen to 5-10 hours of music per day.
digital interventions
- often reported as appealing because of anonymity and privacy + accessibility.
- research indicated that rate of engagement with apps and web-based programs are low, particularly with long-term adherence.
- a need to make digital means more appealing and useable > co-design principle might be an effect approach here.
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