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Support of Healthy Ageing: Using Educational and Psychosocial In-terventions to Maintain Mental Health, for Prevention and Timely Diagnosis of Depression, Anxiety, and Cognitive Disorders of Older Adults in a Community
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Anging Wisely, Music therapy, and 3 other interventions for Preventive Intervention. Completed, enrolled 200 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The aim of the project is the support of healthy ageing of older adults in acommunity. Efficient educational and psychosocial intervention will besuggested and verified to prevent anxiety, depression, and cognitivedisorders of selected older adults, to im-prove their self-esteem,meaningfulness of life, sense of coherence, quality of life, and attitudes toold age. Correlations among anxiety, depression, cognitive functions, andcertain psychosocial aspects will be analyzed.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The program includes 11 meetings of two hours in a group of up to eight people. The sessions are held weekly. Each lesson is given a homework assignment. A total of 10 groups will take place.
Music therapy sessions are held once a week for 60 minutes for 12 weeks. The maximum number of participants per group is 12. A total of 10 groups will be implemented.
Reminiscence therapy sessions are held once a week for 60 minutes for 12 weeks. The maximum number of participants per group is 10. A total of 5 groups will be implemented.
Intervention "cognitive training" will take place once a week for 45 minutes for 20 weeks. Seniors can choose from two options: 1. group training full-time or home training (online) using the comprehensive training program MENTEM.
Interventions in educational activities will run for one academic year. In total, seniors will attend 16 lectures in each educational module. The lectures will run 1 x 14 days for 90 minutes.