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Active Ageing with Music: Supporting Wellbeing in the Third and Fourth Ages
Active Ageing with Music Supporting Wellbeing in the Third and Fourth Ages Author:Andrea Creech, Susan Hallam, Maria Varvarigou, Hilary McQueen This book will explore the powerful potential for active music-making to support well-being among older people. — The aim of the book is to set out an evidence-based account of the relationship between active ageing and engagement in music-making among older people, with particular reference to social, emotional, physical and cognitive well-being... more ». Overall, this book tells the story of how active engagement in music-making has been found to support cognitive, social and emotional well-being in older age. Older people?s own individual accounts will be framed by theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence relating to wellbeing and meeting the challenges of ageing.
The book will be of interest to academics working in the field of psychology of music and to music practitioners who are interested in leading musical activities with older people. Most importantly, this book will be of interest to individual older adults who are interested in how they may preserve and sustain their cognitive, social and emotional wellbeing throughout the latter stages of their lives.« less