Benefits Of Personalized Music In Relation To The Elderly

Like Richard Phelps says, "Where there is life there is music. Where there is music, there is life."(2) Music is one and has been one of the most important components in the lives of many individuals throughout the world for years. Different genres of music help individuals make connections emotionally or react in ways that they can relate to. Especially those such as the elderly that end up alone at nursing homes and face certain disabilities whether it is physical or cognitive, such as Alzheimer’s. In the field of psychology, researchers have studied and proved that music in relation to the elderly has had a positive psychological benefit. It gives these individuals the opportunity to reconnect with their family, sometimes caregiver if they are assigned to one and friends. It helps them relief any type of pain or grief the individual might be facing as well as aggressions and other behaviors. Therefore, it would be constructive to perform a study on how personalized music affects the health conditions of individuals, such as the elderly. Even …show more content…
The first nursing home will have patients with different types of disabilities listening to music with a personalized iPod and headphones. The personalized IPod’s and headphones that will be used in this experiment will be donated to the researcher by “The Music and Memory” organization. The second nursing home will have patients with different types of disabilities all listening to the same type of music genre coming from a stereo played from the caregiver’s preference, this group will play as the control group in the study. In these two nursing homes the way they are cared for are exactly the same, their daily schedules and activities match each facility about the same. However, the researchers would eventually take the place of the caregivers during the patient’s free time activities to experience, record and observe the changes the patients will be