Cooking activity for patients with Alzheimer’s disease: a review
Journal Title: Traditional Medicine Research - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
As a degenerative nervous system disease, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), can damage memory and cognitive function.Cooking activity, aninstrumental activity of daily life, is one of the non-pharmacological therapies with positive effect on AD. Here, we review theeffectiveness of cooking activity on AD. This paper shows that cookingactivity can not only improve patient’s emotional state and alleviate the conduct disorder,but alsoease the burden of professional caregiver. Cooking activity also has certain positive effects on patient’s cognition, autonomy and memory function. Now, as one of the instrumental activities of daily life, cooking activity has developed as a useful tool in the intervention trials, serious game, virtual reality training and assessment of daily living activities.
Authors and Affiliations
Gong Shang-Qun, Cui Chu-Yun, Zhang Hui, Meng Fan-Jie
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