MUSIC IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA
Joseph Kotarba, Amanda Couve · 2023
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Joseph Kotarba and Amanda Couve examined in 2023 the place of music in the everyday life of people living with dementia. Most research treats music as a clinical tool to lift memory or mood. Far less work looks at how music actually shows up in daily life for these patients, at home, in care homes, in hospitals, and in hospice.
Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, the authors argue that music's value does not rest on stirring old memories or rebuilding cognition. Its pleasures are situational: a song shared by family or staff, singing or humming along, can be positive even with no prior tie to that music. At the end of life, such shared moments carry special weight.
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| CREATOR | Joseph Kotarba, Amanda Couve |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |