Echoes of Emotions Through Mindful Music: Impacting Older Adults One Song at a Time

Music has been researched to be a positive impact on older adults with memory loss like dementia. Technology has also made a positive impact for increasing older adult functioning with tasks and communication styles. The paper provides an idea to combat memory decline and cognitive functioning with an app called Mindful Music. The paper describes what Mindful Music is and how it could be beneficial for older adults with dementia. The paper also brings the conversation on stress and struggles throughout memory loss. How music makes the impact on emotions is supplied in the methods and results section. The paper concludes that music can help older adults and supplies the emotions and meanings that come from listening to different songs. Technology provides a way of connection and applies to the solution of declining cognitive diseases. The paper finds that music can not only help restore memories, but the entirety of the quality of life for older adults.