June 2024 The Power of Music to Celebrate Alzheimer’s Month

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Unpacking Research: Music on the Dementia Journey

Music has the ability to positively impact the brain in many ways. Memory care

programs that meaningfully engage persons and include music have been shown

to:

• reduce physical altercations
• reduce the use of antipsychotic medications
• decrease the number of falls as shown in the graph below

Everyone can benefit from the power of music. To assure success with your person consider the following

• Make sure you’re using musical favorites – from the era when the person was age 10-25
• Set up music access that will really work – ease of use
• Plan frequency of use
• Try to be consistent and check in to be sure all is going well

THE POWER OF MUSIC

MUSIC has the power to:

• create joyful connections
• retrieve emotional memories
• enhance neural pathways
• engage more parts of the brain than any other activity
• reconnect with past history and personal identity
• provide a rich sensory experience
• decreases negative emotions
• Improve balance through movement