Dementia Patients May Benefit From Music Therapy

Hearing favorite tunes from their early years can help seniors with dementia recall their past. Flair Images/iStock)

Music therapy may improve depression and anxiety in dementia patients, a new analysis suggests.

Music therapy might also improve emotional well-being among those with dementia, researchers found. But they didn’t find any benefits when it came to cognition and behavioral issues such as agitation or aggression, according to the report in the Cochrane Library journal.