Dementia would affect brains and therefore causes a decline in cognition including learning and memory, language, executive function, complex attention, perceptual-motor, social cognition. [ref1] (American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), American Psychiatric Association, 2013.) Besides, as we age, various cognitive abilities tend to worsen even without a dementia, because the brain changes both structurally and functionally.
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.
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.
Researches show that music plays an important role in enhancing the social, cognitive and affective experiences of both PwD and their social environment.[ref2] One one hand, music is
Music is usually used to modulate the emotion, help in attention engagement. It can trigger the emotions and some biographical memories.
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.