Assessment-Based Small-Group Music Therapy Programming for Individuals with Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Multi-Year Clinical Project

2016 ◽  
pp. miw021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A. Keough ◽  
Betsey King ◽  
Theresa Lemmerman
Author(s):  
Vicky Abad

The purpose of this report is to present a case on John, an 82 year old man with Alzheimer's disease, who resides in a dementia specific unit of a nursing home. People with dementia who require institutional care are often at risk of social isolation, due to the regressive nature of the disease, and the potential of developing behavioural disturbances. This case story demonstrates how group music therapy can be individually tailored to meet the needs of people with dementia who are socially isolated as a result of behavioural challenges, including aggressive and agitating behaviours, and therefore improve the quality of the person's life.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. e443101622316
Author(s):  
Murilo Bastos ◽  
Kelby Cavalheiro de Mendonça ◽  
Valquiria Camargo Lins ◽  
Eduardo Muzzolon ◽  
Deise Mara Soares ◽  
...  

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by cognitive impairment and progressive memory loss and drug treatments have limited efficacy. Thus, non-pharmacological interventions, such as music therapy, have shown to be promising as supporting pharmacological treatment and, therefore, may arouse commercial interest regarding the development of this type of product. Thus, this study aims to carry out a patentometric survey on patent registrations with music therapy in the treatment of AD. A systematic search was carried out from 2000 to 2020 on the Orbti-Questel website, searching for documents referring to music therapies in AD. The terms “Alzheimer music methodology active therapy” and “Alzheimer music methodology passive therapy” were used. After searching, reading, and excluding duplicate results, we found four patent families referring to music therapy in AD and all were selected as a result, which was considered little compared to the number of studies published on the subject.


Dementia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 619-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Guetin ◽  
Kevin Charras ◽  
Alain Berard ◽  
Christophe Arbus ◽  
Patrick Berthelon ◽  
...  

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