Therapeutic factor of dohsa-hou in the elderly with severe Alzheimer's type dementia

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780431
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University (2014-2015); Tokai Gakuin University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: Adachi Masaki 弘前大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 特任助教 (50637329)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 認知症 / 高齢者 / 心理リハビリテイション / 臨床心理学 / 心理療法 / 介入研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we examined the psychological and cognitive effects of dohsa-hou(Body Oriented Psychotherapy) for the elderly. First, we verified the factors that improve the ability to control posture as explanatory factors for improvement in cognitive task performance, which is reported as one effect of dohsa-hou. Subsequently, we examined the psychological effects of dohsa-hou for the elderly with dementia. As a result, in the former, improvement of the upright balance and cognitive task performance due to dohsa-hou was observed. It was presumed impact of information processing resources that were devoted much to upright balance is distributed to the cognitive task processing. In the latter study, improvement in behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, such as circadian rhythm disorders by continued intervention by dohsa-hou was observed. Simultaneously, effective task of dohsa-hou was suggested to be different by the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学