“Do You Hear What I Hear?”: A Study Exploring Senior Care Professionals’ Understanding and Utilization of Music As Health and Hearing Health in Long-Term Care Settings

Despite well-established relationships between music, hearing, and healthy aging, healthcare providers may lack training about these connections. The proposed study will examine knowledge about music as health and hearing health among senior-care versus non-senior-care professionals and implications of this understanding for the successful utilization of music to support healthy aging.