| Summary: | 碩士 === 弘光科技大學 === 老人福利與事業研究所 === 106 === In the 21st century, there is a rising global demand for caring the dementia patients, and an urgent call for the prevention of dementia. According to World Alzheimer Report 2015, the global population of the dementia patients is about 46,800,000. It has been estimated that this population increases at the rate of one patient every three seconds. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of cogni-cise on elders in a certain community. This research has introduced into a local community a program of cogni-cise developed by Japanese National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology and has designed a training program for the community elders in the hope that this program can significantly improve their cognitive abilities. This research may prove to be of referential value to similar projects that aim at the promotion of cogni-cise or at the prevention of dementia.
This research employs a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Eleven elders aged over seventy have been chosen as our test subjects. Those subjects were all from Huri Community Care Center of Wuri District in Taichung. These Chosen elders go through one single 75 minutes session of exercise every week, and the whole project lasted for one month. During the training session, these elders had to submit themselves to aerobic exercise of medium intensity and cognitive exercise of medium difficulty. In this research, Mini–Mental State Examination（MMSE）has been employed as the tool of assessment, using paired sample t test as data analysis method, to examine if there was any significant difference between the pre-test and post-test of MMSE. This research also arranged some interviews with the director of the activity and with community volunteers. Then the interviews were carefully studied, then this research conducted a qualitative analysis to modify the course design and the contents of cognitive development assignment.
The conclusion of this research is that cogni-cise can make significant improvement in the cognitive abilities of community elders, especially in message registration, attention and calculation, short-termed memory test, language comprehension. However, the improvement in orientation is not obvious, but it is possible that there is still some improvement. The findings of this research can be of referential value to future researches on the feasibility and effectiveness of the introduction of cogni-cise to community elders.
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