ABSTRACT

Older adults tend to show poorer performance in a variety of cognitive tasks as they get older and older. While increasing life expectancy these days, the number of people suffering from dementia and of those developing dementia due to pathological aging would have been rising. This article was to report the effect of a cognitive rehabilitation program for community-dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairment which was administered for about 11 weeks. The main purpose of administrating the program to the older adults was to reduce their risk of dementia and to improve their quality of life. Several therapeutical methods such as horticultural therapy, recreation therapy, art therapy and so on were involved in the program which was focusing upon range of motion physical activities. The results of program administration on mini-mental states, depressive symptoms, quality of life, and instrumental activities of daily living were tested and all found significantly. However, some limitations of generalizing the results were discussed in the context of the heterogenous sample, small sample size, and study design with no control group problems.