Abstract:
The present article involves a diachronic qualitative study of how music therapy is
framed in scientific articles published in “Dementia”, an international peer reviewed journal
regarded as a major forum for social research in dementia. The aim of the study is to elucidate
how the framing of dementia is represented diachronically in “Dementia” over the period of ten
years, from 2008 until 2017. The corpus of the study is comprised of 13 scientific articles
published in “Dementia” in 2008-2017. The results of the qualitative framing analysis indicate
that music therapy is framed in “Dementia” by means of the following frames: “Aggression”,
“Agitation”, “Caregiver”, “Nonpharmacological Intervention”, “Quality of Life”, and “Social
Ecology”. These frames are further analysed and discussed in the article.
