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| Title: | A case study on a home-based caregiver-delivered music-with-movement intervention for people with early dementia | Authors: | Lai, DLL Lai, CKY |
Issue Date: | Jan-2017 | Source: | Sage Open medical case reports, Jan. 2017, , v. 5, p. 1-4 | Abstract: | Background: Music has been found to improve sleep and reduce anxiety. Purpose: This article reports a 78-year-old Chinese female who had been diagnosed with early dementia underwent an 8-week music-with-movement intervention delivered by her husband at home after being trained in a day care center. Methods: Both the patient and the husband's data were collected through repeated interviews and regular observations. Conclusion: The results indicated signs of improvement of the patient in terms of sleep quality and depressive symptoms. |
Keywords: | Anxiety Dementia Sleep disturbance Music intervention Case study Home-based intervention Caregiver-delivered intervention |
Publisher: | Sage Publications | Journal: | Sage Open medical case reports | EISSN: | 2050-313X | DOI: | 10.1177/2050313X17730264 | Rights: | © The Author(s) 2017 Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). The following publication Lai, D. L. L., & Lai, C. K. Y. (2017). A case study on a home-based caregiver-delivered music-with-movement intervention for people with early dementia. Sage Open Medical Case Reports, 5, 1-4 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17730264 |
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