<strong>Background:</strong><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and neurodegenerative</span></span><...<strong>Background:</strong><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and neurodegenerative</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> disorder characterized by deterioration of brain functions. Psychosocial interventions such as music and photographic stimuli may contribute to cognitive and sensory exercise or rehabilitation. <b>Objective:</b> Evaluate musical and photographic stimuli in elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease. <b>Meth<span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span>ods:</b> It is an uncontrolled clinical trial, before-after type, eleven subjects composing the sample. Participants were submitted to Katz Index, Autobiographical Memory Test, GDS-15, Mini-Mental State Examination. The collection instruments were used on the first and last day of intervention, individually. There were 2 sessions in the week with duration of 50 minutes totaling 20 sessions. Data <span>were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics and as variables ex</span>pressed as mean standard deviation. <b>Results:</b> There was a significant effect of cognitive activity (P < 0.01)</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "="">,</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> it was observed that a small advance (P = 0.05) of the daily life activities. With the analysis of GDS-15, it is verified that they are more effective for the increase of the previous self-estimation of the therapy (P = 0.94). In the application of the AMT</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "="">,</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> it is observed that there was a bet<span>ter recruitment of the memory for the neutral words. <b>Conclusion: </b>Musical and photographic stimuli had a positive effect on the cognitive level, daily </span>life activities and autobiographical memory in seniors with Alzheimer’s <span>disease.</span></span></span></span>展开更多
文摘<strong>Background:</strong><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and neurodegenerative</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> disorder characterized by deterioration of brain functions. Psychosocial interventions such as music and photographic stimuli may contribute to cognitive and sensory exercise or rehabilitation. <b>Objective:</b> Evaluate musical and photographic stimuli in elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease. <b>Meth<span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span>ods:</b> It is an uncontrolled clinical trial, before-after type, eleven subjects composing the sample. Participants were submitted to Katz Index, Autobiographical Memory Test, GDS-15, Mini-Mental State Examination. The collection instruments were used on the first and last day of intervention, individually. There were 2 sessions in the week with duration of 50 minutes totaling 20 sessions. Data <span>were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics and as variables ex</span>pressed as mean standard deviation. <b>Results:</b> There was a significant effect of cognitive activity (P < 0.01)</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "="">,</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> it was observed that a small advance (P = 0.05) of the daily life activities. With the analysis of GDS-15, it is verified that they are more effective for the increase of the previous self-estimation of the therapy (P = 0.94). In the application of the AMT</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "="">,</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> it is observed that there was a bet<span>ter recruitment of the memory for the neutral words. <b>Conclusion: </b>Musical and photographic stimuli had a positive effect on the cognitive level, daily </span>life activities and autobiographical memory in seniors with Alzheimer’s <span>disease.</span></span></span></span>
