The Effect of Seoul Dementia Healing Design Project on Cognition and Social Engagement.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Rapid population aging and an increase in the demented elderly became major social concerns in South Korea. Environmental design is increasingly recognized as an important aid for long-term care of patients with dementia as well as pharmacotherapy. We did a pilot study to investigate the effect of the Seoul Dementia Healing Design Project In-House Design (S-DHDP-IHD) in improving the quality of life of the cognitively impaired patients and of the S-DHDP Environmental Design (S-DHDP-ED) in increasing daily outdoor activities for cognitively impaired individuals and not cognitively impaired (NCI) elderly residents.

Methods

We applied the S-DHDP-IHD to 2 households of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early-stage vascular dementia (VD). We

SUBMITTER: Chun MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7781737 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature