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Dementia often robs spouses of quality time together but an innovative University of Queensland project hopes to find ways to reclaim it.
Dr Felicity Baker, from UQ's School of Music, has received a $70,000 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award to investigate how music therapy might improve partner satisfaction by providing opportunities for the sharing of memories associated with certain songs.
The UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards have been run for 10 years and are an initiative of UQ to recognise outstanding performance and leadership potential in early career researchers.
"One of the biggest problems of couples living together where one person has dementia is that there's a....read the whole article
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My dad has Alzheimer's and my mom takes care of him. It's not easy for her to get motivated and get him up to exercise or even play his favorite music. I wish she would. Thank you.
Krista
alzheimersteam.com
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