Music Therapy for Older Adults With Cognitive Decline Living in Care Homes

"Weekly individual (one2one) Music Therapy intervention lasting 4 months (n=16 sessions).~Behavioral: Music Therapy Music therapy is a non-pharmacological intervention, in which music and its elements are used professionally as an intervention in medical, educational, and everyday environments with individuals, groups, families, or communities who seek to optimize their quality of life and improve their physical, social, communicative, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health and wellbeing. This therapy has been shown to provide significant benefits for individuals with cognitive decline living in care homes, enhancing social-cognitive functions and reducing behavioural symptoms (Brotons \& Koger, 2000; Hsu et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2017)."

"Weekly individual (one2one) Storytelling intervention lasting 4 months (n=16 sessions).~Behavioural: Storytelling is a non-pharmacological activity, in which a professional activity coordinator reads different stories (e.g., poems, novels) to the participants and used them to initiate a possible conversation."