What is it about?
This paper demonstrates that gardening may be a way to maintain the self esteem of people with young onset dementia in the face of failing skills in other areas. It is possible that it also provides relief for carers.
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Why is it important?
It is unusual to find maintenance of self esteem in the face of cognitive decline. A larger randomised trial is required to confirm these findings.
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There remains a need for interventions that relieve the burden of caring for someone with dementia and simultaneously offer the person with dementia a meaningful occupation. Gardening might be one way of doing this, as might singing in a choir and animal husbandry.
Dr Timothy Ivor Williams
University of Reading
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This page is a summary of: Does a Structured Gardening Programme Improve Well-Being in Young-Onset Dementia? A Preliminary Study, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, August 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.4276/030802213x13757040168270.
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