Dement Neurocogn Disord.  2014 Dec;13(4):101-106. 10.12779/dnd.2014.13.4.101.

The Survey for the Effect of Guideline about Activities of Daily Living in Dementia Patients "Il-sang-ye-chan" Campaign

• Choi H
• Moon YS
• Lee CN
• Yang Y
• Song EH
• Kim HJ
• Na HR
• Shim YS
• Park KW
• Jeong JH
• Yang DW
• Kim S
• Park KH

• KMID: 2443073
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12779/dnd.2014.13.4.101

Abstract

BACKGROUND
Activities daily living (ADL) disability has a direct influence on the patients' quality of life and on the amount of care needed. It is major factor of care in dementia patients. So Korean Dementia Association suggested guideline about activities of daily living in dementia patients in 2013. The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of this.
METHODS
A total of 110 subjects were enrolled. Assessments included age, sex, education level of patients and caregiver, the duration of disease, pattern of family, economic status. We divided "active practice" group and "passive practice" group by recognition of guideline contents after study. We compared two groups before and after by Korean Mini-Mental State Examination (K-MMSE), Short form of Geriatric Depression Scale-Korean version (S-GDS), Korean version of Zarit's Burden Interview (ZBI-K), Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living scale (ADCS-ADL). Finally, we investigate the level of satisfaction about our guideline.
RESULTS
Age of patients, the duration of disease was lower and education level of caregiver and economic status was higher in "active practice group". The pattern of family also differed from two groups. It was observed distinct difference between the variations of two groups in S-GDS, ZBI-K, and ADCS-ADL. The level of satisfaction about our guideline was very high.
CONCLUSION
Considering these results, our guideline about activities of daily living is effective to manage dementia patient. Active application of it is needed in clinic or center for dementia.

Keyword

Dementia; Activities daily living; Guideline for dementia

MeSH Terms

Activities of Daily Living*
Alzheimer Disease
Caregivers
Dementia*
Depression
Education
Humans
Quality of Life

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  Fig. 1 The level of satisfaction about our guideline for dementia patients' ADL.

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