Therapy for dementia patients
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Therapy for dementia patients

Ming Hung Hsu Chief music therapist, MHA, Derby

Music therapy is proven to provide real, life-enhancing, benefits to people with dementia. It helps to better manage symptoms and improves the environment, while early studies show that it could reduce the need for psychotropic drugs.

Nursing Older People. 29, 1, 15-15. doi: 10.7748/nop.29.1.15.s19

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