This international study evaluates the impact of home-based caregiver-delivered music and reading interventions for people with dementia. The project aims to address the need for improved informal dementia care by training family caregivers to utilise a music or reading intervention with the person they are caring for. The interventions aim to decrease behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia as well as improve quality of life and well being of both people living with dementia and their caregivers. Participants will be allocated into a music intervention group, a reading intervention group or standard care group. In addition, the researchers will seek to determine the cost-effectiveness of using the music intervention.
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Change from baseline of behavioural and psychological symptoms of participants with dementia at post-intervention and 6-month follow-up
Timeframe: baseline, 12-weeks (primary time-point), and 6-months after intervention commencement (follow-up)