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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.
1 +== Cognitive Changes==
2 +Dementia affects the brain 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 dementia, because the brain changes both structurally and functionally.
3 +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 get 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.
5 +These declines are hard to be cured and only some existing treatments can temporarily help slow the worsening. Several interventions exist for cognition in dementia. Psychosocial interventions are one of the effective treatments that support and improve the quality of life for PwD.
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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]^^.
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.
7 +== Music Psychology==
8 +Research shows that music plays an important role in enhancing the social, cognitive, and affective experiences of both PwD and their social environment^^[2]^^. Music is usually used to modulate emotion. It can trigger emotions and some biographical memories as alternative means of personal or group expression, not necessarily verbal. It's crucial for PwD to keep a relatively stable emotion daily and be reminded of the previous experience scheduled.
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10 +For our robot, the music can be integrated to help the life of PwD. The music aims to:
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12 +* remind the daily routine of PwD and caregivers
13 +* help PwD memory the previous life, for example as a BGM when playing the picture album
14 +* support various music-related activities like choosing music from a pool or finding specific music from the Internet
15 +* is easy to use for PwD and caregivers
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11 11  == Reference==
12 12  [1] American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), American Psychiatric Association, 2013.
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19 +[2] Peeters, M., Harbers, M., & Neerincx, M. (2016). Designing a personal music assistant that enhances the social, cognitive, and affective experiences of people with dementia. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 727-737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.06.003