Use of Various Musical Activities in Dementia Care - Dr. Sarah Crabtree CIMTR lecture 24-25

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There is a gap in music therapy research in how various musical activities are used to address various symptoms of people living with dementia (van der Steen, et al., 2018). It is also encouraged to be specific and clear when reporting a music therapy intervention (Livingston et al., 2014). This presentation will bring together various data from the HOMESIDE study (Baker et al., 2019, 2023) and PhD research (Crabtree, 2023) to explore how music therapists and informal caregivers use singing, listening, playing instruments and movement with music to address cognition and neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia.
Results show that those using music have a proclivity towards certain musical activities which differs based on prior knowledge, training, experiences, and clinical rationale.
Bringing these findings together provides important information for further training, personal awareness, and areas for future research which will encourage music interventions to be more personalised according to symptoms and aims, and therefore more beneficial for people living with dementia.
This talk was hosted by Prof. Jorg Fachner, CIMTR, ARU.