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Rich Andrews wrote:

Here is something that says that digital music digital is helpful.

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"MEADVILLE, PA (November 14, 2003) — The employee dissatisfaction,
burnout and rampant turnover that threaten one of America's most stress-prone
industries — long-term care — may have a solution in one of man's oldest
activities, according to a new scientific study. Researchers have found
that a specific Recreational Music-making (RMM) program drastically
reduced employee burnout and mood disturbances with huge projected economic
benefits for the long-term care industry."

"A groundbreaking study, funded by Yamaha Corporation of America with
participation by REMO and published in the Fall/Winter 2003 issue of
Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, demonstrates that a six-week program of
Recreational Music-making not only reduced burnout in long-term care workers,
but also reduced Total Mood Disturbance by 46 percent. Using industry-wide
human resources data, researchers projected that this improvement could
result in an 18.3 percent reduction in employee turnover, which would
save the average 100-bed facility more than $89,000 a year-and the entire
long-term care industry as much as $1.46 billion annually. Actual reductions
in turnover at Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community, the center
where the study took place, exceeded the research projections."

"The study's protocol was based upon Group Empowerment
Drumming, coupled with exercises on a digital piano..."

I daresay the results don't depend on "digital music".

Stephen