Music and Movement for Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults

Arts-based health programmes that combine arts with science can enhance the physical and psychosocial health and wellbeing of older people. This podcast discusses the benefits of music and dance for older adults and in particular their experience of the Music and Movement for Health study which examined the feasibility and potential for benefit of such programmes in Ireland.

The primary aim of the study was to examine the feasibility and acceptability of the study design and the Music and Movement for Health programme while the secondary aim was to obtain preliminary evidence of effect of the programme on health and wellbeing of older adults.

Listen to the researchers and participants of the Music and Movement study