Rising levels of dementia is putting pressure on residential aged care facilities, including in rural and regional centers where nursing homes and staff are already under pressure.
Now a pilot program of personalized interventions, including residents’ favorite songs, has been shown to make a big difference to dementia behaviors, drug use and carers’ wellbeing.
Harmony in the Bush, a study led by Flinders University in five nursing homes in Queensland and South Australia, developed a multimodal person-centered non-pharmacological intervention program incorporating individual music selections to reduce, resulting in a significant…
