Improv Music Therapy for Older Adults

Exclusion Criteria

• •Medical diagnosis of severe dementia (any etiology)
• •Non-AD dementia diagnosis (e.g., frontotemporal dementia)
• •Serious medical condition (e.g., an end-stage disease requiring hospice, aphasia from stroke, paralysis, brain injury) requiring active medical management that would interfere with participation in the study
• •Significant difficulty moving the hands or arms (severe arthritis, neuropathy)
• •Plans to move out of the area within six months
• •Current but not prior severe psychiatric disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder)
• •Serious medical condition (e.g., an end-stage disease requiring hospice, aphasia from stroke, paralysis, brain injury) requiring active medical management that would interfere with participation in the study
• •Plans to move out of the area