A day care program and evaluation of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) for the elderly with senile dementia

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 234-239

  Kanamori, Masao ^a   Suzuki, Mizue ^a   Yamamoto, Kiyomi ^a   Kanda, Masahiro ^b   Matsui, Yoshimi ^c   Kojima, Emi ^c   Fukawa, Hirono ^c   Sugita, Tomomi ^c   Oshiro, Hajime ^c  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Totomi Hospital   (Japan)

^c Shizuoka Prefectural Pet Owner s Guidance Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living (ADL); Adult day care; Alzheimer's disease (AD); Animal assisted therapy (AAT); Dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT); Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE); Nishimura's ADL(N ADL); Salivary chromogranin A (Cg A); Vascular dementia (VD)

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DAY CARE; ELDERLY CARE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TEST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENILE DEMENTIA;

EID: 0034904292     PISSN: 15333175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153331750101600409     Document Type: Article

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