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1 -Dementia would affect brains and therefore causes a decline in cognition including learning and memory, language, executive function, complex attention, perceptual-motor, social cognition^^[1]^^. Besides, as we age, various cognitive abilities tend to worsen even without a dementia, because the brain changes both structurally and functionally.
2 -People with dementia have various symptoms, for example, problems with short-term memory, bad at planning and easy to become anxious and angry. These signs of dementia gradually gets worse.
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4 -This decline is hard to be cured and only some existing treatments can temporarily help slow the worsening. Several interventions exist for cogintion in dementia.
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6 -Researches show that music plays an important role in enhancing the social, cognitive and affective experiences of both PwD and their social environment^^[2]^^. One one hand, music is
7 -Music is usually used to modulate the emotion, help in attention engagement. It can trigger the emotions and some biographical memories.
8 -It's crucial for PwD to keep a stable emotion and being reminded of the previous experience schedually. Patients should be able to choose from the music pool.
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11 -== Reference==
12 -[1] American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), American Psychiatric Association, 2013.
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