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Reactivating Occupational Therapy: A Method to improve Cognitive Performance in Geriatric Patients
- Source :
- Age and Ageing. 24:222-226
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 1995.
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Abstract
- In this prospective treatment study, the effects of two different occupational therapy strategies were compared in two samples of long-term geriatric inpatients (n = 22 in each group) with slight to moderate dementia according to DSM-III-R. Psychometric ratings after 12 weeks and 24 weeks of treatment have demonstrated that the application of a reactivating occupational therapy programme in addition to functional rehabilitation is significantly more efficient than the application of functional rehabilitation alone on levels of cognitive performance, psychosocial functioning, and the degree of contentedness with life. These results support the assumption that geriatric patients, if stimulated for a longer time, are able to mobilize latent resources of cognitive and psychosocial performance. Reactivating occupational therapy has a place in the treatment of long-term geriatric patients.
- Subjects :
- Male
Occupational therapy
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Neuropsychological Tests
Speech Therapy
law.invention
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Occupational Therapy
Randomized controlled trial
law
Activities of Daily Living
medicine
Humans
Dementia
Prospective Studies
Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance
Geriatric Assessment
Physical Therapy Modalities
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Rehabilitation
business.industry
Cognition
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Combined Modality Therapy
Long-Term Care
Clinical trial
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Physical therapy
Female
Geriatrics and Gerontology
business
Psychosocial
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14682834 and 00020729
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Age and Ageing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....28ae44d7afaf3d35f1b9c2babbc203c3