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Thesis
Music Interventions for Chinese Patient with Parkinson's Disease: Alleviating Symptoms through Arts-based Interventions
Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses
  • Yan-Jhu Su, Lesley University
Date of Award
5-10-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
MA - Master of Arts
Department
Expressive Therapies
Advisor
Donna Owens
Abstract

Care for the elderly is increasingly important, especially in long-term care centers. How to maintain the quality of life of the elderly is a very important issue for a therapist. There are many therapists dedicated to developing unique expressive arts therapy treatments for residents in long-term care centers. For these customized treatments, therapists need to consider a number of factors, including the problems for referral, medications, and diagnosis. In addition, the patient's cultural background is one of the factors that must be considered in designing a treatment plan. This inquiry explores how music therapy interventions can help a patient from Eastern culture with Parkinson's disease in long term care system. This treatment plan will focus on alleviating Parkinson’s disease symptoms through arts-based interventions, helping the patient adapt to the new living environment, reducing their depression and self-isolation. Because the patient is from Eastern culture, the design of this intervention will be based on Peking drama and traditional Chinese arts. The design uses the familiar art form of the patient to help the patient adapt to the new living environment. In addition, the therapist spoke Chinese in the sessions. The results showed that the patient gradually adapted to this new long-term care facility.

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Citation Information
Yan-Jhu Su. "Music Interventions for Chinese Patient with Parkinson's Disease: Alleviating Symptoms through Arts-based Interventions" (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yan-jhu-su/2/