Cognitive rehabilitation is a continous method with individualized approach that constitutes on strengths and adapt with the weakness in order to enhance a person’s ability to deal effectively with their everyday activities. It is a non-pharmacological intervention designed to improve cognition, inconsideration of mechanism of action in individual with AD. Typically, cognitive training focuses on specific cognitive domains or cognitively depended domains of functioning, such as basic activities of daily living (eating, bathing etc.) and instrumental activities of daily living (calculation, finance management, reading , writing etc.) social skills, and personality changes.1 This intervention is an extensive process which essentially comprises …show more content…
For an example, in a 1-year randomized controlled trial (RCT), 86 participants with mild AD were randomized to four groups: combined Cholinesterase Inhibitors and cognitive stimulation, Cholinesterase Inhibitors alone, cognitive stimulation alone, and a control group. The results showed that the participants in the combined group and Cognitive stimulation alone group had shown improvements in their Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score while the medication only and control groups showed declines in MMSE scores. …show more content…
Hence, cognitive rehabilitation plays a very important role on living with, and managing, the effects of dementia, in order to maintain and support well being & quality of life of both the patients and the caregivers. However, despite the availability of robust evidence, there is none as such available cognitive rehabilitation program for Indian elderly suffering from AD. A foreign rehabilitation program is also not applicable to our population due to culture and literacy difference. Thus the goal of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of indigenized cognitive rehabilitation focussed on attention, memory and verbal ability domains which is usually impaired in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease treated with Cholinesterase Inhibitors (AChIEs)