Evaluation of Animal-Assisted Therapy for the Elderly with Senile Dementia in a Day Care Program
Autor: | Emi Kozima, Kiyomi Yamamoto, Yumi Matsui, Hajime Oshiro, Mizue Suzuki, Masao Kanamori, Shihomi Takeuchi, Masahiro Kanda |
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Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Gerontology congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Animal-assisted therapy Day care Senile dementia Alzheimer Disease Mental stress Internal medicine Evaluation methods medicine Animals Humans Vascular dementia Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry medicine.disease Animals Domestic Day care center Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Alzheimer's disease business |
Zdroj: | Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics. 38:659-664 |
ISSN: | 0300-9173 |
DOI: | 10.3143/geriatrics.38.659 |
Popis: | We conducted animal-assisted therapy (AAT) for the elderly with senile dementia in a day care center. AAT was performed between July 27 and October 12, 1999 for a total of six biweekly sessions. The AAT group consisted of 7 subjects; 5 with senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (SDAT) and 2 with vascular dementia (VD). The control group was 20 elderly subjects (7 SDAT, 13 VD). The results were as follows: Comparing between MMS scores at the baseline and those three months later, the average score on MMS before AAT (baseline) was 11.43 (+/- 9.00), and that three months later was 12.29 (+/- 9.69). In the AAT group, the average baseline N-ADL score was 28.43 (+/- 14.00) and that after ATT was 29.57 (+/- 14.47). In the AAT group, the average baseline score on Behave-AD was 11.14 (+/- 4.85), and that three months after AAT was 7.29 (+/- 7.11) (p < 0.05). In the control group, the average baseline score was 5.45 (+/- 3.27) and that three month later was 5.63 (+/- 3.59). However, the results of eight subscales of communication behavior three months later were significantly low comparing to those at the baseline in the control group. The evaluation of CgA, which was a mental stress index, showed a decreasing tendency in the AAT group. Our findings suggested we should use several evaluation methods for evaluation of the changes of patients receiving AAT. |
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