[P4–319]: ‘THE MUSIC IS STILL THERE’: HEARING FROM INDIVIDUALS WITH DEMENTIA WHO SING TOGETHER
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Abstract
Although music therapy is increasingly recognized as a valuable component of dementia care, research on group singing with this population is relatively limited, as is qualitative research that uses this population's firsthand accounts to understand their experiences. Our innovative study provided a means for individuals with dementia to express how they experienced music therapist-led group singing in a residential care home. The guiding research question was: What is the experience of music therapist-led group singing for individuals with dementia living in a residential care facility? Six male residents, diagnosed with moderate to advanced dementia and ranging in age from 78 to 92 years, participated in six 30-minute group singing sessions facilitated by a music therapist who also played the piano. Repertoire incorporated familiar folk, pop, country and hymn selections. Sources of data included observation, field notes, video recording, and individual interviews (fully recorded and transcribed), which were analyzed using an adapted observational checklist (Davidson & Fedele, 2011) and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (Smith & Osborn, 2003). The analysis process produced six themes that described three aspects of the singers’ experience of group singing: (1) how they experienced themselves (Self as Performer, Self as Part of a Group); (2) how they experienced the music (Live Music is Special; Music is a Gift); and (3) how they experienced dementia and music (Gaps in Time, Memory and Ability; The Music Is Still There). During post-singing session interviews, participants were able to express a range of feelings (e.g., joy, pride, pleasure, relaxation), despite verbal limitations. Conclusions included support about the value and appropriateness of engaging individuals with dementia in research (as participants were able to contribute meaningful data) as well as, in group singing led by a music therapist. Furthermore, evidence supporting group singing as an aspect of dementia care that contributes to wellbeing (as conceptualized by the PERMA model's five elements of positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement, Seligman, 2011) was noted.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".