A case study on a home-based caregiver-delivered music-with-movement intervention for people with early dementia

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.