In 2025, Melody Ding and a team from The University of Sydney reviewed 35 studies with over 16,000 adults from 2014-2025. They analyzed how daily step counts affect eight health outcomes, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia, cancer, depression, falls, physical function, and overall death risk, using data from PubMed and EBSCO CINAHL.

In 2025, researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust ran a pilot program called MELODIC on two hospital wards for people with dementia. They brought in a music therapist to lead sessions and make custom music plans for each patient, aiming to prevent and handle tough emotions without always using meds.