Cognitive rehabilitation in Covid‐19 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type

Abstract

BackgroundDementia of Alzheimer’s type has been characterized as marked deterioration in cognitive processes. The impairment has been progressive and could not be reverse because of its irreversible nature. However, there are some therapies or intervention like Cognitive Rehabilitation which have been proved to be effective for DAT in enhancing the patients' abilities to manage for decreased cognitive functioning. Recent scenario brings an attention on differences in cognitive rehabilitation in dementia of Alzheimer’s disease patients with Covid 19 positive (experimental group) and dementia of Alzheimer’s disease patients with Covid 19 negative (control group).MethodThe present study has been an attempt to compare the effect of video games in cognitive rehabilitation in experimental and control group by incorporating a definite time, frequency and duration for video games in their activities of daily living on 2 cases each for experimental and control group who were matched on Hindi version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA).ResultThe findings revealed that the score of MoCA has been increased by mean of 1.5 point in dementia of Alzheimer’s disease patients with Covid 19 positive and mean of 2.5 points in dementia of Alzheimer’s disease patients with Covid 19 negative.ConclusionThe cognitive rehabilitation using video games has been effective in both experimental and control group, however, it was better in control group as compared to experimental group.