Combined with such such rapid growth in the elderly population, social and environmental changes arisen from women's social activities and family nucleation, the more elderly women would be admitted to senior care [4].
Elderly people in the facility experience anxiety when adjusting themselves because of strange surroundings and negative consciousness about the facilities. Their anxiety gets more severe as getting older [1].
In addition, the elderly in the sanatorium suffers more from sleeping disturbance and have lower quality of sleeping compared to those who are in their homes [5].
Given that sleeping and relaxation are important for the elderly and alternative therapies such as massage [4-6], and music therapy [7] are recommended as ways to efficiently relieve such anxiety and bad sleep problems of the elderly. Massage is considered a safe way to, prior to medical therapy, soothe physio-psychological stresses