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Music and psychological resilience in the process of healthy ageing

Introduction and Objectives: An interest for healthy aging has been growing rapidly in the recent years. Healthy aging, resilience, music and expression of movement are a connected phenomenon. The objective of this abstract is to show our model for the process of healthy aging through music and expression of movement. Methods: A narrative review. Results: Resilience represents a very complex, multidimensional and dynamic process, highly important for understanding of salutogenesis and pathogenesis as well as healthy ageing. Resilience may be defined as a collection of protective factors that mediate the relationship between a stressful event, e.g. disease, and positive outcomes. Resilience is considered a modifiable process, gradually developed through the life span, by facing and overcoming of adversary events. Recent research has shown that the brain, due to its neuroplasticity, has the ability to change throughout our entire life, growing new cells and connections. Interventions to promote resilience and healthy ageing can be organized around three areas: 1. Developing disposition attributes of the individual such as healthy life style, physical activity and robustness ; vitality, optimism and positive affectivity. 2. Practicing positive mutual interactions with supportive resource. 3. Strengthening self-efficacy and self-esteem, as well as having a purpose in life. Music, in particular, can help an individual build their resilience. Music making can enhance the function and structure of many brain areas in adults, proving that training-induced plasticity is not restricted to the developing brain. Even more interestingly, research has shown that daily music listening can improve auditory and verbal memory, attention and mood, thus contributing to the increase in psychological resilience in both children and adults. Passive music listening has been proven to increase levels of oxytocin in adults, and active music participation (like group singing and dancing) has shown the same results. Individual music listening as well as group music activities, such as choir singing or group dancing (a practice such as 5Rhythms) would not only be beneficial to building psychological resilience, but would also promote bonding, social interaction, sense of well-being and improve auditory and verbal memory in older adults. Conclusions: This is our theoretical concept that we intend to execute through adequate models in practice.

psychological resilience, aging, brain plasticity

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