{"id":497,"date":"2026-02-05T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/?page_id=497"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:28:53","slug":"music-as-a-gift-for-life-using-music-in-dementia-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/16-2\/music-as-a-gift-for-life-using-music-in-dementia-care\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSIC AS A GIFT FOR LIFE? USING MUSIC IN DEMENTIA CARE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Author(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kagari SHIBAZAKI, Nigel A. MARSHALL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objectives of the study were to better understand how the responses of people with<br>dementia towards a series of musical activities were understood and interpreted by their<br>care givers. The research explored the extent to which caregiver observations could serve<br>as a proxy language for those with limited memory and verbal capacity. 33 care staff<br>and trained volunteers based in five full time care facilities in UK and Japan carried out a<br>series of open observations on pre-selected residents with mid \u2013 to final-stage dementia,<br>during a series of informal musical experiences. Subsequently, interviews were held with<br>each of the participants in order to better understand what they had observed and how<br>they had interpreted the responses which residents had made during the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Our results suggested that informal musical experiences can potentially offer a range of<br>benefits to care staff, alongside those experienced by residents, and the act of carrying out<br>the observations increased the level of observational skills and the confidence which care<br>givers have in making assessments about the relative levels of well-being in individual<br>residents. The study concluded that in addition to being a pleasant interlude, or a simple<br>form of entertainment, musical experiences can actually become an important and<br>sensitive tool for assessing physical and cognitive health, along with providing a unique<br>context in which disability and stigma are removed.<br><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: dementia, music, care staff, stigma, normality<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"wppdfemb-frame-container-496\"><iframe id=\"wppdf-emb-iframe-496\" scrolling=\"no\" data-pdf-index=\"2\" class=\"pdfembed-iframe nonfullscreen\" style=\"border: none; width:100%; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1000px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv?pdfID=496&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fpmp.du.lv%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F02%2FKagari_SHIBAZAKINigel_A.-MARSHALL_pmp_2025_2.pdf&#038;index=2\" ><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) Kagari SHIBAZAKI, Nigel A. MARSHALL Abstract The objectives of the study were to better understand how the responses of people withdementia towards a series of musical activities were understood and interpreted by theircare givers. The research explored the extent to which caregiver observations could serveas a proxy language for those with limited memory and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions\/500"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmp.du.lv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}