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Impact of Combined Music and Reminiscence Cognitive Stimulation in Dementia: A Longitudinal Pilot Study Using Musiquence

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Dementia is an uncurable neurodegenerative disease that leads to a gradual loss of cognitive capacities and negatively affects emotional state, quality of life, and ability to autonomously perform activities of daily living. Although pharmaceutical approaches can mitigate symptoms in people with dementia, their effect is still limited. Complementary approaches, such as music and reminiscence-related activities, have been proposed for stimulation purposes. Here we present the results of a pilot 14-session longitudinal study with an interactive platform called Musiquence, which allows the incorporation of music and reminiscence elements in cognitive stimulation activities, with 8 participants with dementia. In general, the results of the intervention show improvements in all the assessed domains: cognition, anxious and depressive symptomatology, functionality, and quality of life. Preliminary results appear to support the platform’s feasibility while providing positive outcomes of clinical efficacy.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the participants, health professionals, and health institutions – Centro Social e Paroquial da Ribeira Brava and Centro de Dia Lugar de Memórias – for joining the study. This project is supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology under project NOVA-LINCS (UI/BD/151404/2021), BRaNT [Belief Revision applied to Neurorehabilitation Therapy (FCT: 02/SAICT/2017)] and MACbioIDi2 (MAC2/1.1b/352).

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    Luis Ferreira & Sergi Bermúdez I Badia

  2. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua do Colégio Novo, Coimbra, Portugal

    Mónica Spínola

  3. NOVA LINCS, Department of Computer Science, Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Sofia Cavaco

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Ferreira, L., Spínola, M., Cavaco, S., Bermúdez I Badia, S. (2023). Impact of Combined Music and Reminiscence Cognitive Stimulation in Dementia: A Longitudinal Pilot Study Using Musiquence. In: Papadopoulos, G.A., Achilleos, A., Pissaloux, E., Velázquez, R. (eds) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing. IHAW 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1799. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29548-5_4

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