Effectiveness of group music therapy versus recreational group singing for depressive symptoms of elderly nursing home residents: pragmatic trial

摘要

Depression is the most common disease after dementia among elderly people. Kowalska, Rymaszewska, and Szczepanska-Gieracha (2013) found dementia in 72% of the patients at admission to nursing home, 65% showed depressive symptoms, whereby the co-occurrence is often underdiagnosed and untreated. Depression is also one of the main symptoms co-occurring