Cooking rehabilitation support for self-reliance of cognitive dysfunction patients

Abstract

Cognitive dysfunction patients often interfere with cooking action and give up it. We have proposed the navigation system which supports cooking according to the grade of cognitive dysfunction, and have conducted the experiments of cognitive rehabilitation program (the cycle of cooking, eating, and reviewing) for verifying the hypothesis of having a possibility that the rehabilitation using the proposed system will promote self-reliance of their daily life. Consequently, for cognitive dysfunction patients, it was verified that their self-efficacy improves and there was also a tendency of improving their cognitive function. In this paper, we notice four basic technologies of supporting this rehabilitation program, i.e., 1) recipe transformation according to the grade of disables, 2) support technology for cooking in parallel, 3) group cooking support for improving social skills, 4) remote cooking rehabilitation, and we discuss the verification results and how there should be any rehabilitation program.