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Abstract

The present study aims to make visible the effects of music therapy activity in people with Alzheimer's. For this, a prolonged follow-up has been carried out over a period of two months in a group of between eight and ten people with said disease.

Initially, a series of objectives were set for the patients to achieve. These are mainly focused on improving and stimulating memory. The evaluation and progress of the objectives was carried out from a monitoring table that includes the name of each user in parallel with the attitude and behavior that this could have before the musical proposals that were raised. The aforementioned proposals are based on a collection of activities chosen according to the therapeutic objective that is intended to be addressed (attention, coordination, memory stimulation, socialization, etc.)

Once the data from each session had been collected and the two months of study and observation concluded, an analysis of the information gathered was made and, consequently, conclusions were drawn that respond to and reaffirm the need to apply this doctrine to people with Alzheimer's disease, with in order to stimulate and favor the physical and mental capacities of patients and thereby promote a better quality of life within the disabilities caused by the disease.

Finally, the conclusions on the different lines of research that deal with the union between music therapy and Alzheimer's and the real application of it in the present complete this work.