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Music Use As Therapy For Institutionalized Elderly

2015; International Medical Society; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3823/1852

1755-7682

Francisco Fábio Marques da Silva, Elaine Maria Leite Rangel Andrade, Antônio Fernandes Filho, Francisca Bezerra de Oliveira, Maria Lúcia de Oliveira Bezerra, Anúbes Pereira de Castro, José Gleyson Pereira Moura, Micneias do Nascimento Ferreira, Gabriel Alexandre da Silva, Francisco Demóstenes Abrantes Viana, Cláudia Jeane Lopes Pimenta, Danilo Temóteo da Silva, Ane Iara Nonato de Sousa, Joab Rodolfo Abreu de Farias, Wanderson Wylly Ferreira, Jackeline Batista de Lima, Isadora Leite Alves Dantas,

Health, Education, and Cultural Studies

Introduction: the Long-Stay Institutions, in majority, are places inappropriate and inadequate to the needs that the elderly have, for physical, social and cognitive nature of activities are scarce in these environments.Objective: evaluating the use of music as therapy for promoting the quality of life of elderly in a Long-Stay Care Institution in the city of Cajazeiras-PB.Method: this is an exploratory and interventional research with a quantitative approach, accomplished with 17 institutionalized elderly.Results: the music used as therapy is an important agent in the improvement of social interaction, in the development of new relationships and emotional bonds, with strong influence in the reestablishment of functional impairments present in the elderly.Conclusion: the institutionalized elderly involved in this work showed improvement of physical, social and cognitive order through the use of music therapy.