Music therapy, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease – a review (ISSN 2753-8176 (online))
Music therapy, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease – a review (ISSN 2753-8176 (online)) 1. Ana Pedro 1.Gwyntwr1386 Health & Social Care, Regus Chester Business Park, Heronsway, Chester, CH49QR, UK. info@gwyntwr1386.com Music shows a positive effect on cognitive functioning and music-making has a small but statistically significant effect on cognitive functioning for older adults with probable mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia (1). Music therapy (MT) positively affects mood, neuropsychiatric behaviour, apathy, communication and physical functions for dementia improving symptomatology. Also, behavioural/psychological symptoms improve in severe dementia, and memory and verbal fluency improve in mild Alzheimer's disease. Both active (playing music) and receptive (listening to music) methods are used for dementia (2). Also, MT besides improving patients' symptomatology also helps with caregivers' burden(3). Also, music based interventions (MBIs) consisting o...