Music therapy with the elderly: complementary data as a rich approach to understanding communication

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Abstract

Having worked clinically for five years with persons suffering from dementia, I have a very strong feeling that singing well-known songs in a therapeutic setting has positive effects on this group of patients who have suffered severe losses: loss of cognitive abilities and loss in their social lives. But the problem is how to describe these benefits and positive effects as these participants do communicate, albeit not in a direct way, that they are relating to what is going on in the therapy. The focus of the research therefore was on strategies that made it possible to describe effects of the music therapy, instead of trying to prove these effects. This is why I chose to carry out research to see what happens and document the effects of music therapy. In the following pages I want to describe a smaller part of this case study research where I included quantitative measures and looked for patterns in the analyses of both quantitative and qualitative data. This complementary data was used later to match theories of communication, environmental attention and arousal.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelCase Study Designs in Music therapy
RedaktørerDavid Aldridge
Antal sider19
UdgivelsesstedLondon
ForlagJessica Kingsley Publishers
Publikationsdato2005
Sider191-209
ISBN (Trykt)1843101408
StatusUdgivet - 2005

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