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Aging poses a problem all over the world, and the numbers of dementias patients are increasing. In connection, number of elderly nursing home is also increasing. Accordingly, health care sector is facing a serious labor shortage. There are needs to create an recreational activity which can expect improvement of elderly people’s dementia prevention and easing a care worker’s burden. In this study picture colouring was carried out, as a result behavior problems of elderly people decreased dramatically and burden of care worker has also decreased.
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Kawabata, S. (2014). Effectiveness of Paper Coloring Recreation in an Elderly Persons Care Home. In: Duffy, V.G. (eds) Digital Human Modeling. Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. DHM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8529. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07725-3_56
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