Megan Snyder

Snyder
We’re working with people with dementia who are living in the Durham community.

Degree

Evolutionary Anthropology '17

Project Team

We’re working with people with dementia who are living in the Durham community. We go out and meet with them for the first time, do some baseline measurements and assess their cognition and their neuropsychiatric behaviors associated with dementia. We also talk with their caregivers. Then we ask them what kind of music they like, and we come back with their favorite music personalized on an iPod. We ask them to listen to their personalized music every day, and we try to see if there were any changes with their neuropsychiatric symptoms—and also with the caregiver burden associated with caring for someone with dementia.