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Implementation of personalized music listening for assisted living residents with dementia.

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Murphy, K; Liu, WW; Goltz, D; Fixsen, E; Kirchner, S; Hu, J; White, H
Published in: Geriatr Nurs
2018

Personalized music listening (PML) has been touted as a safe and inexpensive means of improving the quality of life, mood, and behavior of persons with dementia. A PML program was implemented in an assisted living facility and evaluated across the five dimensions of the RE-AIM framework: reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance. The first 17 residents invited to participate were enrolled and followed over eight months. Effectiveness was evident in staff-reported mood improvement in 62% of encounters. Adoption was evident in qualitative feedback collected from medication technicians. Implementation was facilitated by low costs, engagement of external volunteers, highlighting outcomes that are relevant to staff, and attention to playlists over time. Maintenance required continued engagement of volunteers, ongoing fundraising, attention to facility staff engagement, and iterative adjustments to the program framework as staffing changes occurred. PML was found to be a meaningful intervention that is possible at a reasonable cost.

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Geriatr Nurs

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EISSN

1528-3984

Publication Date

2018

Volume

39

Issue

5

Start / End Page

560 / 565

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Quality of Life
  • Quality Improvement
  • Nursing
  • Music Therapy
  • Memory
  • Humans
  • Dementia
  • Assisted Living Facilities
  • 4205 Nursing
  • 1110 Nursing
 

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Murphy, K., Liu, W. W., Goltz, D., Fixsen, E., Kirchner, S., Hu, J., & White, H. (2018). Implementation of personalized music listening for assisted living residents with dementia. Geriatr Nurs, 39(5), 560–565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2018.04.001
Murphy, Kelly, Winston W. Liu, Daniel Goltz, Emma Fixsen, Stephen Kirchner, Janice Hu, and Heidi White. “Implementation of personalized music listening for assisted living residents with dementia.Geriatr Nurs 39, no. 5 (2018): 560–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2018.04.001.
Murphy K, Liu WW, Goltz D, Fixsen E, Kirchner S, Hu J, et al. Implementation of personalized music listening for assisted living residents with dementia. Geriatr Nurs. 2018;39(5):560–5.
Murphy, Kelly, et al. “Implementation of personalized music listening for assisted living residents with dementia.Geriatr Nurs, vol. 39, no. 5, 2018, pp. 560–65. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.gerinurse.2018.04.001.
Murphy K, Liu WW, Goltz D, Fixsen E, Kirchner S, Hu J, White H. Implementation of personalized music listening for assisted living residents with dementia. Geriatr Nurs. 2018;39(5):560–565.
Journal cover image

Published In

Geriatr Nurs

DOI

EISSN

1528-3984

Publication Date

2018

Volume

39

Issue

5

Start / End Page

560 / 565

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Quality of Life
  • Quality Improvement
  • Nursing
  • Music Therapy
  • Memory
  • Humans
  • Dementia
  • Assisted Living Facilities
  • 4205 Nursing
  • 1110 Nursing