AMA Journal of Ethics^®

There is evidence of the benefits of music for health and wellness, but current US clinical practice does not yet commonly incorporate arts-based interventions.

This article considers ethical questions raised during development of an online art exhibit for and with people with dementia and their care partners.

Dr Vaishali Phatak joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Mary Perkinson and Meghan K. Ramirez: “Leveraging Cross-Campus Expertise to Contribute to Dementia Care Through Music.”

There’s similarity between processes used by an artist to see the entirety of a scene and those used by a clinician to assess a patient.

Authentic partnerships with people with dementia motivate full social participation and resist fatalism around experiences of illness.

Research is needed on surrogates’ susceptibility to believing that clinical trials provide individual therapeutic benefit.