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Kamis, 18 Agustus 2011

Treating Alzheimer's By Play Theatre

Many Alzheimer's patients newly diagnosed after entering the phases of stress. They realized it was memory lose, while they know that if it has been like that, then it will no longer be able to care for themselves.

The research team from Chicago, to test new ideas through theater games without a script than affect the health of patient Alzheimer.

"Improvisation is all about a moment, for someone with memory loss is  very safe place,"said Mary O'Hara, a social worker at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.


"Perhaps remembering the past makes people less anxious or even a bit sad because they have failed. But by thinking about the future too much can also stimulate anxiety. So at this moment is a safe and good place for them," explains O'Hara, told NPR.
Researchers working at Northwestern won the Tony Award from Lookingglass theater company. There is already a program that uses improvisational theater to Alzheimer's patients at later stages of the disease, but this is a unique collaboration because this could be the first step in healing the patient.

"It takes experience to do so, there is a script and they do not need to memorize it," he said.

Hara added that they do to develop their creative potential. And they are very successful doing that.

One initiator of improvisation to be perfect if it collaborates with people with dementia. So something that is important here is that whatever answer someone comes here, we will all do the job, "said Christine Mary Dunford, leader of the Lookingglass group of novice players.

Researchers do not expect a game like this is useful to stop or slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, but they are investigating whether to involve the creative ability, an early stage in the process of healing the patient.


Before and after the program runs for eight weeks, participants and their families held a series of questions, to check and see how it changes and what their answers.

"We ask people to tell us how they feel about their physical health and their moods," says Darby Morhardt, associate research professor at Northwestern.

"When we think about people living with Alzheimer's and dementia, we think about the people who lost their skills every day. But here, they also learned some new things," concluded Dunford. 

This can give them confidence that they are able to achieve this. Because of their opportunities to successfully perform sesuata in Alzheimer's condition is not much.

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