健康で活動的な高齢者の上肢機能と心理学的背景

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"Well being" of elderly may be the most important goal of our society. We had a chance to examine a group of active and healthy elderly people in a rural area. They enjoy their physical exercise as "Playing of gait ball" on every morning for 2 hours from 5 a.m. Their function of upper extremity was assessed by the use of Kaneko's Simple Test for Evaluation of Hand Function (STEF). Hand function is a very important part in the activity of daily living. They were also evaluated by clinical psychology tests of Cornell medical index(CMI), Yatabe-Guilford character test(YG-test), Mini-mental scale test(MMS), and Raven matrices test. By interview, their past history and present state of health were inquired in person. All of them appreciated satisfactory lives at this time. Mean time (seconds) for all procedure of STEF were 89.9 and 94.2 on right and left hands, respectively. Mean time of STEF by standard Japanese of the similar age group were 108.6 and 112.2 seconds on right and left hands, respectively. Time consumed for their STEF procedure was significantly shorter than the standard data of similar age group (P<O.05). Psychological tests showed no deterioration of cognitive function and they were not in the neurotic condition. They also enjoy exercise very well with their team mates. We propose that they may be a group of well being on the mental, physical, and social activity with superior ability of hand function. Relationship between physical exercise and cognitive function was discussed.
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健康で活動的な高齢者の上肢機能と心理学的背景

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