Listening to music has been found to decrease anxiety, blood pressure and pain as well as improve sleep quality, alertness and memory in seniors, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.ĭallas-Fort Worth Institute of Musical Advancement (DIMATexas) offers music classes tailored to seniors, as well as therapies for memory-care patients, explains founder Elida Dakaoli, Ph.D. My feeling is there is probably not that big of a difference.” “It will boost neural activity,” he said.
The studies he cited focused on playing musical instruments, but Alain noted that singing has similar benefits. They have comparable age-related peripheral hearing loss as nonmusicians but they have slower age-related decline in understanding speech in noise and better performance in cognitive tasks.” “Music training mitigates cognitive aging even among low-activity musicians with nine years or fewer of musical training. “If you played a musical instrument when you were a kid into early adulthood, it will pay off way down the line,” he said.
“Musical activity in adulthood is associated with benefits in several cognitive domains - global memory, working memory, language and visual function.”Īlain also pointed out that early musical training sharpens neural processing well into older age, even if people have stopped playing. “There is an increase in brain functional connectivity after music training,” Alain said.
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