The Correlation between Cognition, Depression and Leisure Activity of Elderly People

  • Lee J
  • Lim G
  • Kim H
  • et al.
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the correlation between cognition, depression and leisure activity in elderly people above 65 years of age, and to improve their health and quality of life by providing baseline data for occupational therapy intervention. This investigation was performed on 118 elderly people above 65 years of age who lived in local community and two senior welfare centers. In order to collect the data, we used MMSE-K, KDS, Questionnaire for leisure activity. The depression of elderly people was negatively correlated with their cognition(p

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Lee, J.-W., Lim, G.-H., Kim, H.-R., Bang, Y.-K., Lee, J.-Y., Cho, M.-L., … Yang, Y.-A. (2014). The Correlation between Cognition, Depression and Leisure Activity of Elderly People. The Korean Journal of Health Service Management, 8(1), 65–73. https://doi.org/10.12811/kshsm.2014.8.1.065

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