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KMID : 1022420130050010027
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2013 Volume.5 No. 1 p.27 ~ p.38
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Improving Cognitive Abilities for People with Alzheimer’s Disease: Application and Effect of Reality Orientation Therapy (ROT)
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Kim Jung-Wan
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Abstract
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Healthcare providers in Korea are using conservative pharmacological treatment for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to delay the progress of the disease or to mitigate its behavioral and neurological symptoms. However, there is a growing need for interventions using practical non-pharmacologic treatment, as the effects of pharmacological treatments has faced limitations. This research provided a cognitive rehabilitation program to 3 AD patients and used a multiple baseline design across subjects to examine the effects. Performing reality orientation therapy (ROT) for 1 cycle (4 weeks) resulted in a slight increase in accuracy and responsiveness on an orientation task, mainly with patients with mild cases of AD. Also, in the sub-domain of the Korean-Mini Mental Status Examination performed to examine changes in cognitive ability, there were minimal changes in place orientation. In functional communication, however, there were no significant differences before and after the intervention. In conclusion, we found that ROT was an effective intervention for improving accuracy and responsiveness in the orientation of patients with mild cases of AD. In future studies, the effect of non-pharmacological interventions can be evaluated more reliably by examining the interaction effects of sample size, length of the intervention, outcome measurements, and pharmacological intervention.
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KEYWORD
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Alzheimer's Disease, Language, Rehabilitation, Reality Orientation Therapy, Cognition
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