Abstract
Music and exercise have played amajor role in the care of people with dementia for decades. The scientific evidence for such interventions is still relatively scarce but growing. The fact which has been known for nearly 10 years that brain regions associated with musical long-term memory remain intact up to advanced stages of dementia made music amajor therapeutic resource in cognitive decline. Therefore, sung texts are learned and recalled better than spoken texts. Furthermore, the specific music-related stimulation of frontal brain regions has frequently shown positive effects on conspicuous behavioral disorders associated with dementia. Exercise in combination with music, in the form of dance or eurhythmics, not only seems to positively affect cognition but also balance and gait safety among patients with dementia.
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