NIHR – Study to use music therapy to reduce distress in dementia wards
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NIHR – Study to use music therapy to reduce distress in dementia wards
A new major study investigating how music therapy can reduce patient distress and physical assaults on NHS inpatient wards for people with dementia.
“The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has funded a new major study investigating how music therapy can reduce patient distress and physical assaults on NHS inpatient wards for people with dementia.
The study is called MELODIC – Music therapy Embedded in the Life of Dementia mental health Inpatient Care. It’s being led by Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, alongside Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
The researchers are also working in partnership with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Dementia UK.”