Outcomes of Expanded Cognitive Stimulation Therapy Group for Mild-Stage Dementia: Four-Month Follow-Up

Daniel Kim Wan Young; Petrus Yat Nam Ng; Daphne Cheng; Timothy Kwok; Shuyan Yang; Florence Ho; Vivan Mak; Andrew Lau

doi:10.1177/1049731519859432

Outcomes of Expanded Cognitive Stimulation Therapy Group for Mild-Stage Dementia: Four-Month Follow-Up

Daniel Kim Wan Young^*, Petrus Yat Nam Ng, Daphne Cheng, Timothy Kwok, Shuyan Yang, Florence Ho, Vivan Mak, Andrew Lau

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Abstract

Purposes: This research aims to report the results of a 4-month follow-up study of an expanded cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) group that combines CST and Tai Chi on improving the cognitive abilities of community-dwelling Chinese elderly with mild-stage dementia (EwMD).

Methods: Two-group pretest–posttest design was adopted in this study, involving 101 Chinese community-dwelling EwMD who had completed an expanded CST group conducted at a local elderly center. Cognitive abilities of the EwMD were assessed by standardized assessment tools at pretreatment (T1), posttreatment (T2), and the 4-month point after completion of treatment (T3).

Results: The repeated-measures analysis of variance showed that after completing the expanded CST group, the improved cognitive abilities of participants could be maintained up to 4 months after the completion of treatment.

Conclusions: This study demonstrated that treatment effects of the expanded CST group could be maintained up to 4 months after completion of treatment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	724-735
Number of pages	12
Journal	Research on Social Work Practice
Volume	30
Issue number	7
Early online date	1 Jul 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731519859432
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020

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cognitive functioning
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dementia
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