Feasibility and acceptability of a group music creativity intervention for adults with varying cognitive function.

ABSTRACT: Maintaining healthy cognitive functioning and delaying cognitive decline in cognitively intact and cognitive impaired adults are major research initiatives for addressing dementia disease burden. Music interventions are promising, non-pharmaceutical treatment options for preserving cognitive function and psychological health in older adults with varying levels of cognitive function. While passive, music interventions have attracted considerable attention in the abnormal cognitive aging literature, active, music interventions such as music creativity are less well-studied. Among 58 older adults with different levels of cognitive function (cognitively healthy to mild cognitive impairment), we examined the feasibility and acceptability of Project CHROMA, a Stage 1 clinical trial develo

SUBMITTER: Wu-Chung EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374102 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature