Musical Health Technologies, the leader in delivering therapeutic music solutions digitally to older adults, announced that it has received the A2 Collective Pilot Award, which grants funding for a 12-month study using a sample of at-risk rural residing older adults to develop new, advanced machine learning capabilities to power SingFit.
The study will leverage machine learning (ML) techniques to create a cultural inclusivity that will fuel the musical prescriptions in its SingFit digital health platform, for the purpose of improving cognitive and emotional health for people with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD). This work is funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, under grant P30AG073107.
This grant will be utilized to establish a foundation for machine learning to swiftly tailor relevant music to various populations based on their cultural and musical backgrounds. The grant also enables:
SingFit is accessible and acceptable to a diverse range of individuals. By creating a more comprehensive, individualized platform through collaborative filtering models, SingFit can serve as a more inclusive and culturally relevant tool for at-risk older adults in different communities who have been traditionally underrepresented in the development of music-based digital health interventions and health interventions at large.
Musical Health Technologies to use cutting-edge technology to improve the care of older adults. This project will use machine learning to enhance cultural relevance and usability of a therapeutic mHealth app (SingFit) to develop individualized therapeutic music playlists for priority populations at-risk for ADRD.
The design and evaluation of an Intelligent Recommendation System within SingFit. ML models will be developed using collaborative-based filtering that utilizes user data to identify optimal therapeutic music components for enhancing engagement and emotional resonance among rural-residing older adults at-risk for AD.
About Musical Health Technologies
Musical Health Technologies (MHT) was founded in 2014 by technology industry and music therapy veterans, Rachel Francine and Andy Tubman, a certified music therapist. Since then, MHT’s digital health platform, SingFit, is now the leading digital based therapeutic music intervention in the world. The digital health platform SingFit, which combines active singing supported by smart technology, delivers music as medicine at scale. Currently the SingFit platform is focused on the needs of millions of older adults, especially those with cognitive decline. SingFit solutions for group and individual care are used across nearly 800 senior living communities and skilled nursing facilities, with 3,430 certified facilitators and more than 32,000 total users and growing. There have been more than 12 million individual SingFit sessions to date. SingFit just launched in the UK with support from Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber, a part of the NHS. To learn more, visit SingFit.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
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About the National Institute on Aging:
The A2 Collective Pilot Award, funded by the National Institute on Aging, supports AI technology R&D pilot projects to enhance care and health outcomes for older adults, including those with Alzheimer's and related dementias.
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