Therapetuic horticulture activities provide an ideal opportunity for engaging care participants with dementia that can be modified to suit a wide range of cognitive and functional abilities. As the results, therapeutic horticulture activities provide ...
Therapetuic horticulture activities provide an ideal opportunity for engaging care participants with dementia that can be modified to suit a wide range of cognitive and functional abilities. As the results, therapeutic horticulture activities provide appropriate levels of stimulation, serve rehabilitation, new skill development and accomplishment with horticultural success. This study was conducted to validate the benefits of therapetuic horticulture activities as effective program of institutional care for elederly people, Three hypothesis was set up based on the charactieristics of elderly people and these hypothesis was verified by the observational method. Especially, non-horticulture activities(music, art, craft...) was observed to distinguish the effectiveness of horticulture activities. As the result of this study, the portion of time spent doing nothing during the horticulture activities was lower than during non-horticulture activities, the portion of participants engaged in their time during the horticulture activity engaged in horticulture behavior was greater than was spent in productive behavior during non-horticulture activities. However, the average levels of affect revelaed no differeces in affect between the horticultural and non-horticultural activities.