title: Senses make sense: An individualized multisensory stimulation for dementia.
abstract: Nonpharmacologic interventions have been recommended as first-line treatments for dementia, and multisensory stimulation environment has been used as a non-pharmacological treatment to dementia patients in the last decade. However, the clinical effect of multisensory stimulation environment remains temporary and uncertain. Individualized medicine has been suggested to hold great promise in medicine, and it should be equally important for dementia. Reminiscence integrating individual experiences into therapeutic schemes has shown potential in the field of improving cognitive functions and depressive symptoms for dementia patients, and interactive music also demonstrated a positive outcome by using individualized music for the hearing aspect. We therefore hypothesize that an individualized multisensory stimulation in a natural and realistic environment integrating personal experience may be an effective intervention for patients suffering from dementia.
authors.affiliation: The Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People's Republic of China; OMNI Research Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Yuanwu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: OMNI Research Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Minxue
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: The Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: OMNI Research Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: swwen@ohri.ca.
authors.forename: Shi Wu
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Wen
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D003704:Dementia / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009146:Music; D009147:Music Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D057285:Precision Medicine; D012677:Sensation