Listening to music gives some quality-of-life benefit to older people in a small 4-week trial from Hong Kong.

摘要

This randomised controlled study addressed the issues of quality of life among older adults. Populations around the world are ageing.For example, in the USA, the fastest growing population group are the 'Old Old' or those above 85. Therefore, studying methods to improve the quality of life in older adults, including functional and mental quality of life, are relevant to nursing. A total of 66 community dwelling adults above 65 years of age were randomly assigned to the prepared music group (n=31) or the control group (n=35). In week 1 of the study, demographic information was collected from each participant, and the Quality of Life-SF36 Scale Version 2.0 Chinese version was completed. In the control group, no intervention was implemented, and the Quality of Life-SF36 was completed once a week for 4 weeks.