Objectives: In the face of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, people with dementia and their carers are contending with serious challenges to their health and wellbeing, due to risk of severe illness, limiting of social contact and disruption to usual activities. Many forms of support for people with...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced performing arts groups to cancel shows and entire seasons due to safety concerns for the audience and performers. It is unclear to what extent aerosols generated by wind instruments contribute to exposure because their fate is dependent on the airflow onstage. We use...

Background: Indoor mass-gathering events have been banned since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic because of high risk for spread of SARS-CoV-2. A growing body of evidence supports point-of-care screening of potentially contagious individuals with antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests...

In this study, we evaluated whether levels of receptive arts engagement (visiting museums/concerts/the theater/the cinema) during the year preceding the COVID-19 outbreak may have served as a psychological resource for older adults that mitigated the association between resilience levels and...

Choral singing has become a major risk during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic due to high infection rates. Our visualization and velocimetry results reveal that the majority of droplets expelled during singing follow the ambient airflow pattern. These results point toward the...

As a result of this writing, I encourage future academics to conduct further study on what sorts of music and movements are acceptable for women during birth, as this is a highly intriguing issue, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Music and dance can also be used as an alternative...

Background: There are few evidence-based interventions for long COVID; however, holistic approaches supporting recovery are advocated. We assessed whether an online breathing and wellbeing programme improves health related quality-of-life (HRQoL) in people with persisting breathlessness following...

Museums in 2020 have gone through severe change and uncertainty as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, which in some cases has prompted opportunities for drawing new relationships with communities. This study follows two contemporary art museums with a focused commitment to co-creating with...

This study aimed to analyze the impulse dispersion dynamics of aerosols in professional singers concerning the differences between singing a text, singing a vowel, or speaking at different levels of loudness. Ten healthy professional singers from the Bavarian Radio Choir (five female and five male; ...

The pandemic of COVID-19 led to restrictions in all kinds of music activities. Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 requires risk assessment of wind instrument playing in various situations. Previous studies focused on short-range transmission, whereas long-range transmission risk has not been...