APPLICATION AND EXPERIMENTATION OF ARTISTIC-MUSIC LANGUAGE AS ALTERNATIVE THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURE FOR INDIVIDUALS DIAGNOSED WITH ALZHEIMER'S PATHOLOGICAL CONDITION (Atena Editora)

Abstract

With the increasing life expectancy, the number of individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a progressive degenerative disease that causes linguistic, mental and social deficiencies in individuals, has increased. In view of the non-availability of drug treatment to the whole society, it is urgent to identify and make viable alternative treatment measures. Thus, the research aims, mainly, to prove the effectiveness of the application of artistic-musical language for therapeutic purposes in patients with Alzheimer's. For this, also, the properties inherent to the musical resources that enable their use in the treatment of the consequences of the disease will be analyzed. Furthermore, in the field phase of the study, the resonances provided by this employment will be mapped and categorized. Data for such procedures will be collected through bibliographic research and the application of music therapy by the researchers. Therefore, the methodology is seen as qualitative, ethnographic in nature and characterized as action research, as the researchers will be intrinsically related to the process. The research locus is Abrigo Nosso Lar, a philanthropic institution in Vitória da Conquista that provides housing and medical care to the elderly, housing forty-three individuals, six of whom are eligible for the position of research subject. The expected results are based on the significant improvement in the subjects' lifestyle, thus attesting to the effectiveness of this treatment. Furthermore, the preliminary results are mainly based on the ease of negotiation with the research locus, a fact that reveals the essentiality of intervention in this context. Finally, it is hoped, therefore, to make this therapeutic alternative visible to the community and, at the same time, to collaborate for its dissemination.