Alzheimer’s Disease & Music Engagement: Quality of Life Economic Impact Analysis
June 3rd, 2025
Supported by AARP and the A. Barry Rand Fund of the AARP Foundation, Alzheimer’s Disease & Music Engagement: Quality of Life Economic Impact Analysis, is the second study in a series of economic analyses produced within the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative that shows significant quality-of-life benefits to both individuals with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers.
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The report, Alzheimer’s Disease & Music Engagement: Quality of Life Economic Impact Analysis, was produced by Deloitte Canada, a professional services firm providing audit, consulting, and advisory services in consultation with the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative. The work was supported through AARP and the A. Barry Rand Fund of the AARP Foundation.
It is the second in a series of economic analyses produced within the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative to advance its goal to establish neuroarts as a recognized field and, ultimately, to have neuroarts become part of mainstream medicine and public health (NeuroArts Blueprint: Advancing the Science of Arts, Health, and Wellbeing, 2021). Generating solid economic evidence that demonstrates the real costs and benefits of using the arts to improve health and well-being is part of the Blueprint Initiative’s field building strategy to strengthen the evidence base. Neuroarts is an interdisciplinary field, rooted in the science of neuroaesthetics, which explores how the arts and aesthetic experiences change the brain, body, and behavior and how this knowledge can be applied to advance health and well-being.
The goal of this report was to understand the economic value music engagement could have for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and the impact it might have on caregivers. It builds upon the NeuroArts Blueprint first released study, the 2021 Alzheimer’s Disease and Music Engagement Economic Impact Analysis ([Click here]), also supported by AARP, which showed the benefits of music engagement with the Alzheimer’s population to the overall US economy, including significant increases in GDP, tax revenue, jobs and labor income.
This economic analysis focuses on assessing the economic impacts associated with quality-of-life metrics for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease through music engagement and their caregivers, including activities of daily living, depression, and sleep quality, and caregiver stress as measured against the impact on health care costs for the care of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, such as hospitals stays and emergency room visits.
Deloitte Canada looked at the short-to-medium term economic impacts over the course of a year of two 30-minute sessions of music engagement every week. The results showed both improvements in the quality of life for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and their patients, and cost savings to the health care system.
Read the press release here: [Click here]
It is the second in a series of economic analyses produced within the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative to advance its goal to establish neuroarts as a recognized field and, ultimately, to have neuroarts become part of mainstream medicine and public health (NeuroArts Blueprint: Advancing the Science of Arts, Health, and Wellbeing, 2021). Generating solid economic evidence that demonstrates the real costs and benefits of using the arts to improve health and well-being is part of the Blueprint Initiative’s field building strategy to strengthen the evidence base. Neuroarts is an interdisciplinary field, rooted in the science of neuroaesthetics, which explores how the arts and aesthetic experiences change the brain, body, and behavior and how this knowledge can be applied to advance health and well-being.
The goal of this report was to understand the economic value music engagement could have for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and the impact it might have on caregivers. It builds upon the NeuroArts Blueprint first released study, the 2021 Alzheimer’s Disease and Music Engagement Economic Impact Analysis ([Click here]), also supported by AARP, which showed the benefits of music engagement with the Alzheimer’s population to the overall US economy, including significant increases in GDP, tax revenue, jobs and labor income.
This economic analysis focuses on assessing the economic impacts associated with quality-of-life metrics for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease through music engagement and their caregivers, including activities of daily living, depression, and sleep quality, and caregiver stress as measured against the impact on health care costs for the care of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, such as hospitals stays and emergency room visits.
Deloitte Canada looked at the short-to-medium term economic impacts over the course of a year of two 30-minute sessions of music engagement every week. The results showed both improvements in the quality of life for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and their patients, and cost savings to the health care system.
Read the press release here: [Click here]
