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Dementia and memory loss with the elderly Ellie Clarke Introduction There will be 1 million people with dementia in the UK by 2025. The topic of memory loss with the elderly has become a major concern for some of the modern day generation. Research Aims find out ways in which the elderly can use to music to bring back important memories within their lifetime, which may have been lost due to dementia or other illnesses affecting the brain and memory loss. Discover existing ways in which care homes are helping people with dementia bring back the memories already lost. Products already out there to help with the memory returning. Secondary research – non medical The medical solution to this problem has not yet been discovered but there are many other ways in which the condition can be slowed down and made less painful. 1. Social Interaction. 2. Music. 3. Video Playing. 4. Activities. 5. Recreating situations to simulate memories. 6. Story Telling. Most people with dementia remember the distant past more clearly than recent events. This is because memories tend to decline in reverse order to when they were experienced. People will often have difficulty remembering what happened a few minutes or hours ago, but can recall, in detail, life when they were much younger. However, as the condition progresses, even these long-term memories will eventually decline. Secondary research – brain workings in relation to music Positive aspects of music on the brain: Ambient noise can improve creativity. Classical music can improve visual attention. One-sided phone calls are more distracting than normal conversations. Music training can significantly improve our motor and reasoning skills. Research method: Quantitative. Secondary research - statistics 1. There will be 1 million people with dementia in the UK by 2025. 2. Two thirds of people with dementia are women. 3. One in Six people aged 80 and over have dementia. 4. Delaying the onset of dementia by 5 years would reduce deaths directly attributable to dementia by 30,000 a year. 5. The financial cost of dementia to the UK is £26 billion per annum. 6. 80% of people living in care homes have a form of dementia or severe memory problems. Research method: Quantitative. Products Literature review 1. The man who mistook his wife for a hat. By Oliver Sacks. 2. Designing mental health units for older people. By Mary Marshall. 3. At your fingertips – dementia Alzheimer’s and other dementias second addition. By Harry Cayton, Dr Nori Graham and Dr James Warner. Primary Research • Phone Call to a Care Home within Essex that looks after multiple dementia Patients. • Email sent to the Alzheimer’s Research society. • Spoke to elderly relatives on the phone. • From the action taken a clearer understanding of the condition itself has been presented. • Research methods: Qualitative. Next steps 1. Over Easter I shall be visiting a care home within Essex that houses dementia patients. - I plan to find out about multiple ways that the patients are treated within care home. the - Ways in which the patients are specifically treated in regards to their condition. - Ask opinions on using music as a tool to support the patients and their progression with regaining memory. 2. Giving out a questionnaire to the elderly within the home to see responses to the questions although remaining anonymous. 3. Creation of my own design brief which will begin to create a system to help the elderly with regaining memory loss through the power of music.