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Transforming Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Dementia through Music and Filmmaking

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With nearly 6 million people with dementia (PWD) in the United States, there is a critical need to build an interprofessional dementia workforce. Among the novel approaches to expanding a… Click to show full abstract

With nearly 6 million people with dementia (PWD) in the United States, there is a critical need to build an interprofessional dementia workforce. Among the novel approaches to expanding a new workforce, music and the arts show promise for engaging students and trainees. To understand how and why the arts affect attitudes about and engagement with PWD, we examined a serviceā€learning general education undergraduate course centering on music, filmmaking, and dementia.

Keywords: student perceptions; music filmmaking; perceptions dementia; undergraduate student; transforming undergraduate; music

Journal Title: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Year Published: 2020

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