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Intervention with nostalgic music and reminiscences provide positive emotions for people with dementia and reduces BPSD
Author(s) -
Urabe Mie,
Fukuda Hiroko,
Noda Yasuha,
Miyata Chiharu,
Yoneda Sho,
Sakai Katsumi,
Kato Yuka,
Kitajima Kengo,
Sawada Chikao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1002/alz.041346
Subject(s) - reminiscence , dementia , active listening , mood , psychology , intervention (counseling) , music therapy , psychological intervention , session (web analytics) , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , medicine , disease , pathology , world wide web , computer science
Background Nostalgic music arouses positive changes in mood and social behavior of persons with dementia. (Barnetta L., et al., 2006 )The reminiscence method for a person with dementia supports his/her memories and emotions by having their life history listen to. The intervention using nostalgic music and reminiscence provides stimulation to the emotions of a person with dementia, and positive emotions occur. Through the positive emotions, they may also have a positive effect on the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). This project aims to reduce BPSD by extracting positive emotions from people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) with BPSD by listening to and talking about their favorite nostalgic music videos. Since personal computers, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are used, there is no need to prepare instruments, etc., and anyone can perform this individual intervention anytime, anywhere. This project is researching the interventions that utilize the emotions and the memory function of people with dementia, and has the hypothesis that positive emotions will be able to reinforce their self‐esteem and reduce BPSD. Participants of this project are patients with AD with BPSD in psychiatric hospital in japan. One session is conducted for 30 minutes, four times in total, for each participant for two months. In a session, a participant and a researcher watch the participant’s favorite nostalgic music video of a singer of the time, and talk about impressions and memories of this song. In these sessions, it is an important point to provide images of when the participant was listening to this song.