| Summary: | 碩士 === 雲林科技大學 === 健康產業管理研究所碩士班 === 98 === The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of Montessori–based activities intervention on changes in depressive symptoms and daily livelihood functions of elderly with dementia in an institution. A quasi-experimental design was used in this study. Fifty-eight subjects (including 28 in the experiment group and 30 in the control group) from two nursing homes in Hsinchu county were observed. For the experiment group, Montessori–based activities were used as training materials, while control group followed normal activities arranged by the institution. Post-test analysis was performed on the two groups after 4 weeks and 12 weeks of intervention. The results of this study are described as followings. First of all, there was a significant difference in the depressive symptoms interaction between the experiment and control groups. Moreover, the result also demonstrated that the changes in depression after 4 weeks and 12 weeks of intervention both showed improvements when compared with pre-test results. Secondly, the experiment group showed significant change in depressive symptoms subcategory “related to emotions.” Finally, analysis of variance of daily livelihood functions in the experiment group showed a significant difference in interaction. Daily livelihood function scores for the experiment group was greater than the ones who were belonging to control group. The conclusion might be provided that long-term montessori–based activities training can alleviate depressive symptoms and improve daily livelihood functions. Applications of Montessori–based activities could be proposed in the nursing home.
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