NCT07419022Not yet recruiting
Improv Music Therapy for Older Adults
Impact of Improvisation Music Therapy for Persons Living With Dementia and Their Care Partners
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 23 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Older adults and their care partners will participate in music therapy sessions for approximately 8 weeks. Before and after the 8 week study period, participants will fill out questionnaires about their mood, stress levels, and emotions. During the music therapy sessions, they may be observed or asked questions about the music therapy sessions.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 11 Feb 2026
- Start date
- Dec 2026
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2028
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT07419022
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 40
- From Dec 2026 to the primary completion date, Dec 2028
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Current but not prior severe psychiatric disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder)
Other illness
- 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
- 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
Other
- Significant difficulty moving the hands or arms (severe arthritis, neuropathy)
- Plans to move out of the area within six months
- Plans to move out of the area
Who the study is looking for
- Age 60 and over, living independently in the community
- Medical diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
- Mild dementia defined as MoCA score between 16-20, or MMSE score between 19-24
- Sufficient visual and hearing acuity (age-related to normal hearing loss with assistive devices)
- English fluency rated fairly well to well (self-rated English fluency)
- Age 18 or Older
- Moderate to good English fluency (self-rated English fluency)
- Willing to participate in intervention with PLWD
Age in the registry: 60 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Francisco | United States | Unknown status |
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