Evaluation of communication behavior in persons with dementia during caregivers’ singing

Engström, Gabriella; Marmstål, Lena Hammar; Williams, Christine L.; Götell, Eva

doi:10.4081/nursrep.2011.e4

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“…If compared with previous single case studies with MTC [21,22] , the result of this study is faint since MTC was shown to radically improve communication [22,23,27] and positive emotions [19,21] . The decision to instruct the caregiver to hum instead of sing might have been a disadvantage, since the singing might have been preferable.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…This procedure is repeated until all ten-one minute segments are scored. Reliability and validity was supported in a previous study of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and their spouse caregivers [27,28] .…”

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“…As previously stated, the caregiver was instructed to hum songs only and refrain from singing, because earlier studies conducted by Hammar Marmstål, Emami, Engström and Götell [18,23,26] , and Hammar Marmstål, Emami, Götell and Engström [19] , as well as Engström, Hammar Marmstål, Williams and Götell [22,27] have shown that persons with severe dementia sometimes start to sing with their caregivers during caring situations. It was important that Mrs. Andersson could concentrate on eating rather than singing during the lunch service.…”

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Humming as a means of communicating during mealtime situations: A single case study involving a woman with severe dementia and her caregiver

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Objective: 'Music Therapeutic Caregiving', when caregivers sing for or together with persons with dementia during morning care situations, has been shown to increase verbal and nonverbal communication between persons with dementia and their caregivers, as well as enhance positive and decrease negative emotions in persons with dementia. No studies about singing during mealtimes have been conducted, and this pilot project was designed to elucidate this. However, since previous studies have shown that there is a risk that persons with dementia will start to sing along with the caregiver, the caregiver in this study hummed such that the person with dementia did not sing instead of eat. The aim of this pilot project was threefold: to describe expressed emotions in a woman with severe dementia, and describe communication between her and her caregivers without and with the caregiver humming. The aim was also to measure food and liquid intake without and with humming. Method:The study was constructed as a Single Case ABA design in which the ordinary mealtime constituted a baseline which comprised a woman with severe dementia being fed by her caregivers in the usual way. The intervention included the same woman being fed by the same caregiver who hummed while feeding her. Data comprised video observations that were collected once per week over 5 consecutive weeks. The Verbal and Nonverbal Interaction Scale and Observed Emotion Rating Scale were used to analyze the recorded interactions.Results: A slightly positive influence of communication was shown for the woman with dementia, as well as for the caregiver. Further, the women with dementia showed a slight increase in expressions of positive emotions, and she ate more during the intervention. Conclusion:Based on this pilot study no general conclusions can be drawn. It can be concluded, however, that humming while feeding persons with dementia might slightly enhance communication, and positive expressed emotions in persons with dementia. To confirm this, more studies on group levels are needed. Because previous studies have found that caregiver singing during caring situations influences persons with dementia positively it might be desirable to test the same during mealtime.

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“…Nearly all art forms offer people with dementia and carers opportunities for creative expression, skill development, cognitive and emotional stimulation, and non-stigmatising social engagement. In particular, research involving singing ( Engström et al , 2011 ; Särkämö et al , 2013 ), music ( Ragneskog et al , 2001 ; van der Vleuten, 2012 ), visual arts ( Camic et al , 2016 ; Windle et al , 2014 ) and museum programmes ( Camic et al , 2017 ; Johnson et al , 2017 ) have shown promising initial findings.…”

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Created Out of Mind is an interdisciplinary project, comprised of individuals from arts, social sciences, music, biomedical sciences, humanities and operational disciplines. Collaboratively we are working to shape perceptions of dementias through the arts and sciences, from a position within the Wellcome Collection. The Collection is a public building, above objects and archives, with a porous relationship between research, museum artefacts, and the public. This pre-planning framework will act as an introduction to Created Out of Mind. The framework explains the rationale and aims of the project, outlines our focus for the project, and explores a number of challenges we have encountered by virtue of working in this way.

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“…Finally, there are several situations in which singing enhances communication with specific client groups. For example, music-embedded conversations involving singing instead of talking enhance communication between caregivers and people with dementia (Beer, 2016;Engström, Marmstål, Williams, & Götell, 2011;Hammar, Emami, Engström, & Götell, 2011), and also between teachers and children with ASD (Braithwate & Sigafoos, 1998). Although it is not completely clear which mechanisms are at work here, enhanced perceptiveness for language through music may play a part.…”

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Table of contents Acknowledgments General introductionThe Musical Foregrounding Hypothesis (MFH) Sub-hypotheses to be tested Song, singing, performance and other definitions A multi-disciplinary approach Preference rules and processing fluency Participants and stimuli Gold MSI and other subject factors Overview 1. The MFH checked against existing research 1.1 The MFH in musicology and literary research 1.1.1 The relationship between words and music in a song 1.1.2 Musical meaning 1.1.3 Song and literariness 1.1.3.1 The divide 1.1.3.2 Performance on the page 1.1.3.3 Demands of poetics and cognitive constraints 1.2 MFH-related evidence in empirical research 1.2.1Music-processing influences language-processing in a disturbing way 1.2.2 Music-processing influences language processing in a beneficial way 1.

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Evaluation of communication behavior in persons with dementia during caregivers’ singing

Abstract: The number of persons with dementia (PWD) is increasing rapidly worldwide.

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Humming as a means of communicating during mealtime situations: A single case study involving a woman with severe dementia and her caregiver

Humming as a means of communicating during mealtime situations: A single case study involving a woman with severe dementia and her caregiver

Preparatory planning framework for Created Out of Mind: Shaping perceptions of dementia through art and science

Singing as a figure of speech, music as punctuation

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