2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A preventive intervention study for community-dwelling elderly with mild cognitive impairment : Kahoku Longitudinal Aging Study
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13670369
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Public health/Health science
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| Research Institution | Kochi Medical School |
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Principal Investigator |
NISHINAGA Masanori Kochi Medical School, Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Associate professor, 医学部, 助教授 (50265245)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUBAYASHI Kozo Kyoto University, The research center of South-East Asia, professor, 東南アジアセンター, 教授 (70190494)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Keywords | cognitive decline / community dwelling elderly / group work program |
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| Research Abstract |
We followed community-dwelling elderly persons(79 persons, over 65 years old) with mild cognitive impairment during three years in Kahoku. We conducted the group work programs for them to prevent the further progression of their cognitive impairment. The programs consisted of music therapy, hand-crafting, gardening, games, cooking, communication with children, and writing Haiku poetry. These group work programs focused on three main outcomes. The first outcome was that they prevented their deterioration in Kohs cuboidal test(a sensitive tool to assess their changes of cognitive function), another was that they kept the good scores of quality of life measured by the visual analogue scale. The third is they prevented the further depressive scores estimated by geriatric depression scale 15.
We also examined the association among their cognitive impairment, depressive mood and advanced functional capacities. Both their depressive mood and the decline of their advanced-functional capacities were the independent risk factors for cognitive impairment. We should closely watch those elderly with depressive mood and decline of advanced functional capacities. Our group work programs may be also recommended to prevent the further progression of their depressive mood and their advanced-functional decline.
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