NCT07137949

Delirium in Neurodegenerative Disease Patients: A Music Therapy Intervention for Hospital Care

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Boston Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In this pilot study a new kind of music therapy will be created and tested to help prevent confusion, called delirium, that can happen in the hospital. This can affect people with brain diseases like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Each of the anticipated 30 participants will have up to five music therapy sessions. The sessions will be made just for them and may include live music, playing instruments, or listening to recorded music. Surveys will be used to learn how easy the therapy is to do in the hospital and what people think about how helpful the sessions may be for future patients.

Conditions

• Delirium

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Music therapy	Live music therapy (MT) sessions will occur 3 times/week, up to 5 sessions. Sessions will be responsive to patient preferences, culture, and identity using information gained from medical record review, intake assessment, and in the moment therapeutic assessments.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-03-11
• Primary completion: 2026-12-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2025-08-22
• Last updated: 2026-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States