장기요양시설에서 원예치료가 치매 노인의 소근육에 미치는 영향

This study showed that horticultural therapy could impact patients` emotions through changes in three-finger-tip holding. All of these results indicated that horticultural therapy could be employed as a method of socio-environmental therapy for patients at long-term sanitariums who suffered from dementia. It was difficult to generalize such results since the present experiment was conducted in a short period of time with a limited number of participants as control group and experimental group. However, considering that the elderly with dementia tend to stay at sanitariums for quite a long period of time, studies for developing a long-term program for performing horticultural therapy should be conducted more in the future.