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© 1995 Oxford University Press

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Reactivating Occupational Therapy: A Method to improve Cognitive Performance in Geriatric Patients

DORIS BACH1,*, MICHAEL BACH2, FRANZ BÖHMER1, THOMAS FRÜHWALD3 and BRIGITTE GRILC3

1Allgemeine Poliklinik der Stadt Wien Mariannengasse 10, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
2Department of Psychiatry University of Vienna Austria
3Haus der Barmherzigkeit, Institute for Geriatric Longterm Therapy Vienna, Austria

*Address correspondence to Franz Bohmer, MD

In this prospective treatment study, the effects of two different occupational therapy strategies were compared in two samples of long-term geriatric inpatients (n = 22 in each group) with slight to moderate dementia according to DSM-III-R. Psychometric ratings after 12 weeks and 24 weeks of treatment have demonstrated that the application of a reactivating occupational therapy programme in addition to functional rehabilitation is significantly more efficient than the application of functional rehabilitation alone on levels of cognitive performance, psychosocial functioning, and the degree of contentedness with life. These results support the assumption that geriatric patients, if stimulated for a longer time, are able to mobilize latent resources of cognitive and psychosocial performance. Reactivating occupational therapy has a place in the treatment of long-term geriatric patients.

Revision received September 23, 1994.
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