@article {157,
	title = {EXAMINING THE BENEFITS OF SOMATOSENSORY GAME MACHINE ON SENIORS WITH DEMENTIA-TAKING THE EXAMPLE OF ONE YUNLIN COUNTY{\textquoteright}S DAYCARE CENTER WITH SENIORS},
	journal = {Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century },
	volume = {13},
	year = {2019},
	month = {June/2019},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {18-31},
	abstract = {This research adopted a quasi-experimental design in which purposive sampling was used. The research site was the National Cheng Kung University Hospital Dou-Liou Branch dementia daycare center, from which 30 patients with dementia who were >= 65 years old were recruited. During the research, participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control groups. During the research, eight participants withdrew due to personal reasons; 22 participants completed the research. The research spanned 12 weeks, from 21 September to 31 December 2017.
The experimental group included four male dementia patients (76.25 {\textpm} 6.61 years), of which three had mild dementia and one had moderate dementia; and seven female dementia patients (80.14 {\textpm} 6.38 years), of which four had mild dementia and three had moderate dementia. In the control group, there were five seniors male dementia patients (80.8 {\textpm} 1.6 years), of which three had mild dementia and two had moderate dementia; and six female dementia patients (82.83 {\textpm} 8.93 years), of which three had mild dementia and three had moderate dementia.
The present research employed an interactive drum-beating somatosensory game, {\textquotedblleft}Taiko no Tatsujin{\textquotedblright}. Results showed that differences in the experimental group across the 12-week program reached statistical significance (p =.046*). The Jamar dynamometer was used to measure the grip strength of both hands of the participants; the experimental group showed significant improvement across the 12 weeks (p≦.001***). The Minnesota manual dexterity test was used to measure bilateral hand coordination of the participants. Though there were significant differences in the performance between the experimental and control groups (p≦.001***), both groups improved the time taken to complete the test across the 12 weeks. 
},
	keywords = {dementia, hand coordination, hand-grip strength, somatosensory games},
	issn = {2029-8587},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/ppc/19.13.18},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2019/444-1562914540.pdf},
	author = {Jiang-Zhou Yeh and Hsiu-Lan Chin and Tai-Lin Wu and Shuo-En Xu and Bor-Wen Cheng}
}
