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KMID : 1164420190140020093
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Health Communication
2019 Volume.14 No. 2 p.93 ~ p.102
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The effects of welfare center's cognitive improvement program on the community elderly provided by nursing student volunteers and social welfare
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Jang In-Sun
Kim Eun-Ji
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate effects of welfare center's cognitive improvement program on the community elderly provided by nursing student volunteers and social welfare.
Methods: A quasi-experimental with non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design was implemented. The participants were the community elderly with or without mild cognitive impairments (experimental group: 17, control group: 15). The experimental group participated in the cognitive improvement program for four months based on the demonstration program of the special grade of dementia in long-term care insurance for the elderly.
Results: After the intervention, the satisfaction with perceived social support (F=9.30, p=.005) was improved statistically between the experimental group and the control group, but there was no significant difference in MMSE-K, IADL, depression, EQ-VAS, and EQ-5D variables.
Conclusion: These results indicated that a multidisciplinary approach or a variety of manpower is needed, in order to prevent the dementia of the elderly. However, in order to provide a systematic cognitive-based intervention, it was once again recognized that the training of relevant experts and the quality planning on them were very important.
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KEYWORD
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community elderly, cognitive therapy, voluntary workers
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