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COGNITIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF NON-PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS FOR DEMENTIA AMONG ELDERLY
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Background: Dementia is a chronic progressive syndrome, that impairing cognitive fields and affects the ability to be autonomous in daily activities. Up to now, no medicine can cure dementia, but can only help slow down the progression of the disease and reduce some symptoms. Besides, pharmacological interventions have many side effects and are expensive, so non-pharmacological treatments for dementia become more urgent. Objectives: Evaluate the effectiveness of non-pharmacological multifactorial intervention in dementia patients. Subjects and methods: Randomized controlled clinical intervention. Subjects include 88 patients diagnosed with very mild, mild, and moderate dementia in Hai Duong from July 2021 to December 2022. Results: High rates of recruitment (97.8%), retention (100%), and completion (100%). The intervention helped improve cognitive function by 0.43 ± 0.32 points while increasing severity by 0.32 ± 0.58 points in the control group. The intervention group improved cognitive memory by 0.52 ± 0.53 points, while the control group decreased by 0.28 ± 0.63 points. Conclusions: Non-pharmacological multifactorial intervention, including physical activity, cognitive training, and listening to educational lectures, shows effectiveness in improving cognitive neurological function, including memory.
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