Alzheimer Disease is a disease caused mostly by the interaction between genetic

and environmental factors. It is known that by sensorily stimulation, music therapy

can improve the life quality, and slow down physical and mental destructions of the
patients. The aim of this study is to research whether the application of music
therapy could effect the alzheimer patients’ agitation and anxiety.

The study incorporates 30 of the patients from İstanbul Avrasya Bakımevi between
65-93 years old, who are diagnosed with the alzheimer and can communicate
verbally. A control and treatment group is structured with fifteen patients for each,
generating homogeneous groups. A forty-five minute long music therapy sessions
are applied to the patients of the treatment group for sixteen weeks. Beck Anxiety
Scale and Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMI) is used at the first, sixth,
twelfth and sixteenth weeks of the study. The data acquired from this study is
analyzed by SPSS 20 package program. BURADAKİ BÖLÜMÜ ANLAMADIM. While
annotating the results, 0.05 is used for the statistical significance, meaning that
p<0.05 indicates a meaningful difference, and p>0.05 indicates that there are no
meaningful differentiation.

Before the music therapy, experiment and control groups’ mean scores are 42.53
and 25.4 for the Becks Anxiety Scale and, 57.4 and 41.8 for the Cohen-Mansfield
Agitation Inventory, respectively. Regarding the Beck scores, the experiment group
shows no statistically meaningful difference between (ZAMANLAR?)(p<0.05) while
for the experiment group, a statistically meaningful difference between (zamanlar…)
is shown (p>0.05). Regarding the Cohen scores, the experiment group shows
statistically meaningful difference between (ZAMANLAR?) (p>0.05) while    the
experiment group shows no statistically meaningful difference between (zamanlar…)
(p<0.05).

It is concluded that the application of music therapy to alzheimer patients effects

positively to lower their anxiety and agitation.