Evaluation and development of music therapy program exercise for function maintenance with multi-disciplinary collaboration and improvements

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25463590
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: Showa University
• Principal Investigator: OGUCHI EMIKO 昭和大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (50102380)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SHIODA Seiji 星薬科大学, 先端生命科学研究所, 教授 (80102375)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 音楽運動療法 / リハビリ体操 / 機能維持 / 機能改善 / 視聴覚教材 / 多職種連携

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research representative have developed the group chair-exercise with music therapy (GEMT) that is combination with music therapy and exercise therapy, embodied those at several institutions over ten years as a public program of nursing-care prevention and rehabilitation project for the aged people. GEMT has achieved good effects on their functional maintenance and functional improvement on the aged participants’ mind and body. For a single time, their activity and the amenity were increased and the stress hormone in saliva reduced and the salivary pH increased, additionally after the participation for nine months the overall health feeling and the energies increased, their posture and the flexibility improved. It is turned out that GEMT was handy and the participants could continue happily with the companion. Therefore the research representative produced the DVD audiovisual teaching material of this GEMT, enforceable without impossibility and with joy for the aged people.

Free Research Field

薬理学/統合医療