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KMID : 0603920190270020025
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Journal of Korean Academy of Occupational Therapy
2019 Volume.27 No. 2 p.25 ~ p.36
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Literature Review on Necessity of Occupational Therapist as Member of Early Screening Team at Center for Dementia Safety
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Park Ju-Won
Kim Jun-A
Yoon do-Hyun
Jo Yeon-Hee
Jeon Ga-Young
Chang Yong-Hun
Kim Hwan-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: Recently, the need should establish a dementia safety center and provide dementia care service is on therise. As a team of early screening, occupational therapists have been excluded. Therefore, the purpose of thisstudy was to investigate that an occupational therapist is an evaluation expert.
Method: This study collected data on assessment tools and areas conducted by occupational therapists throughdomestic and foreign studies and guide books on dementia policy of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. This studycompared the evaluation tools used by early screening teams and clinical occupational therapists.
Result: The evaluation and treatment of the cognitive and perceptual domains in the occupational therapy are at thetop in side of importance and performance. Assessment of the dementia safety center and evaluation of clinicaluse by occupational therapists are used in six different cognitive areas: memory, visuospatial, concentration,execution, calculation and language.
Conclusion: This study suggested that occupational therapist could be a professional who has sufficientqualifications in the evaluation domain, This study will be usefully used in the future when submitting opinions tothe Ministry of Health and Welfare for amendments to the dementia policy series.
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KEYWORD
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Cognitive evaluation, Occupational therapist, Early screening team, Dementia, Center for dementia safety
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