Sing for the Moment: A Choral Ensemble for Persons with Dementia and Their Care Partners

Young, Abigail E.; Cornacchio, Rachel; Hamon, Raeann R.

doi:10.1080/15350770.2019.1551644

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“…Choral singing has also shown benefits for people with mental health problems, such as a sense of belonging, regularity of sleep, and improved eating habits, due to the need to attend rehearsals (Clift & Morrison, 2011; Dingle et al, 2013; Eyre, 2011). Furthermore, A. E. Young et al (2019) affirm that people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias receive various benefits from singing, and Shakespeare and Whieldon (2018) argue that a combination of singing and social engagement improves the functioning and mood of people with mental health problems, provides enjoyment, and enhances self-confidence, which may be experienced by people irrespective of their age or gender (Livesey et al, 2012; Williams et al, 2018).…”

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Choral singing and personal well-being: A Choral Activity Perceived Benefits Scale (CAPBES)

Herranz

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Arribas-Marín

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Psychology of Music

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Numerous studies have demonstrated the capacity of choral singing to improve human well-being and that, in certain sectors of society (including older adults, prison populations, underprivileged social groups, and mentally illness groups), choral singing bears several benefits. Thus, this descriptive study proposed a comprehensive structural model of the dimensions that comprise choral singing’s contribution to individual well-being and aimed to explain these benefits. The study was conducted in a non-random sample of 1,513 adult Spanish singers of both sexes and variable age. An instrument was developed to assess the psychosocial benefits of choral singing, as perceived by singers; it comprised five constituent dimensions: satisfaction, ability, group engagement, belonging, and optimism. The instrument enabled us to assess how choral singing contributed to well-being, with adequate reliability (Cronbach’s α = .917) and validity. The system of relationships proposed by the model represents a plausible explanation regarding the benefits of choral practice and singing for well-being.

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Choral singing and personal well-being: A Choral Activity Perceived Benefits Scale (CAPBES)

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Arribas-Marín

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Psychology of Music

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“…These participants were likely motivated by the supportive nature of groups that are meant for people with disabilities and sought social support from like-minded people in similar positions, especially in a time when social gathering in person was not an option. The idea that group/choral singing can function for both social and emotional support among people with dementia has been highlighted in prior research [9,11,16].…”

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“…Group singing, or choir singing, is a common and accessible form of community music-making that offers many health and well-being benefits for people living with dementia, including the significant reduction of pain and anxiety, improved cognitive processes and quality of life [6][7][8][9]. It can result in psychosocial well-being [4], and long-term emotional well-being [10], as well as assist in patients coming to terms with their diagnosis leading to a better quality of life [11].…”

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“…The participation of a caregiver is often required in choirs organized for people living with dementia. Such dyad participation can enhance the relationship between the family caregiver and the person who has dementia, increase well-being for both, as well as lead both to foster new empathetic friendships with other caregivers and people with dementia and enlarge their support system [8,9,11,16].…”

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Successful Online Choir for People Living with Dementia: A Qualitative Case Study

MacDonald¹,

Zumbansen²

2023

OBM Integr Complement Med

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Group singing as a social musical activity can be used to improve the quality of life, well-being, and overall health of people with dementia and caregivers. Online choirs have gained awareness since the COVID-19 pandemic; however, singing in an online choir is an unsatisfying experience for most choir members in the general population. In order to report on the feasibility of creating an online choir for people with dementia, we studied a successful case of such a choir. This choir began and continued online for over a year, maintaining a group of about ten people. The objectives were to understand the participants' experience and explore factors contributing to its success. We surveyed 12 members using closed and open-ended questions (5 choristers with dementia, 5 caregivers, the choir director, and a volunteer). The thematic analysis of the responses revealed that (1) an online choir is better than no choir for participants with dementia, (2) participants sought and found in the online choir an accessible way to socialize and enjoy singing, and (3) obstacles to participate in an online choir (mostly technology-related) are not the same as those to participate in an in-person choir (mostly travel related). The success of this online choir may in part be attributed to the fact that it first started online (the members did not compare the experience to previous in-person rehearsals and had more flexible expectations); most participants with dementia had mild cognitive symptoms and had extensive previous choral singing experience.

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“…Additionally, singing was identified as a crucial practice for not only improving interactions between the Telenoid and its target, but also among nearby residents within the facility. While singing was useful in a pragmatic sense, as a way to engage with residents and encourage more open interactions, staff were also aware that it has therapeutic benefits for older people, too (e.g., Skingley and Vella-Burrows 2010;Young, Cornacchio, and Hamon 2019), and thus found it to be an excellent use of the Telenoid. In these cases, the Telenoid offered the potential to not only be a useful tool for learning about residents or supporting staff's interactions with them, but also to provide meaningful kokoro care in and of itself.…”

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Caring for the Ordinary: Care Work, Technology, and Dementia in Long-term Eldercare in Japan

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<p>What constitutes good care in aging Japan? In this thesis, I explore eldercare practices from the vantage point of eldercare facilities in the Kansai region of Japan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in five long-term facilities from 2018 to 2020, I describe how good care is achieved through “caring for the ordinary”, which is inextricably tied to everyday practices of caring. Taking up the mundane and everyday practices of good care helps reveal the dilemmas posed by the convergence between Japan’s macro-level socio-economic and demographic shifts and the micro-level challenges posed by dementia. This convergence problematises assumptions about ‘good care’ by demonstrating how the production and maintenance of “the ordinary” is a key achievement of care work. I make this argument in two parts: first, I demonstrate how care workers produce ordinary life for residents at these care facilities through attention to relationality, temporality, and narrativity. I argue that by attending to these conceptual spaces, care workers and residents bridge imagined divisions in care work that separate karada (physical, bodily) care and kokoro (mental, emotional, spiritual) care – care for the body and care for the person – in order to maintain a sense of ordinary sociality in these extraordinary spaces. In the second part of the thesis, I describe how emerging technologies and sociotechnical imaginaries intersect with these care practices. By tracing out governmental and economic initiatives, I consider the sociotechnical imaginaries that determine how and why certain technologies are developed and incorporated into care. I also show why technological fixes to contemporary issues in eldercare often present additional obstacles as they disrupt the ordinary by bifurcating karada care and kokoro care. By bringing these two modes of analysis together, I argue that the creation and maintenance of a local sense of ordinariness is both a crucial method and vital achievement of caring practice. Indeed, attention to the production of the ordinary sheds light not only on the socio-demographic problems facing Japan as it ages, but also the kinds of lived dilemmas aging populations produce in sites of care work. In other words, I show how good care for elderly residents is caring for the ordinary. Such a reconceptualization of care has implications for care practice, anthropological understandings of care and its ethics, and the role of technology in care.</p>

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Sing for the Moment: A Choral Ensemble for Persons with Dementia and Their Care Partners

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References 6 publications

Choral singing and personal well-being: A Choral Activity Perceived Benefits Scale (CAPBES)

Choral singing and personal well-being: A Choral Activity Perceived Benefits Scale (CAPBES)

Successful Online Choir for People Living with Dementia: A Qualitative Case Study

Caring for the Ordinary: Care Work, Technology, and Dementia in Long-term Eldercare in Japan

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