Behavioral disturbances that often accompany the dementia or dementia is restless and likes to get angry. In addition to antipsychotic medication, this disorder can also be overcome with laughter therapy is its effectiveness at 20 percent.
The benefits of laughter therapy for various health problems has been widely studied. But this time, researchers from the University of New South Wales again proved its benefits for sufferers of senile dementia or to relieve feelings of restlessness.
During this time, senile people are fussy because they feel restless and more irritable treated with antipsychotic drugs. But since it works directly on the central nervous sisitem, it is feared could trigger the long-term effects and addiction sampiang.
In an experiment, the research team by Lee Fay Low dimpimpin trying to find alternatives to these antipsychotic drugs. This experiment involved 400 elderly people aged over 65 years of 36 nursing homes were diagnosed with dementia.
During certain periods, participants routinely involved in laughter therapy guided by Jean Paul Bell. The name was quite famous in Britain, with the nickname 'clown doctor' or the clown doctors often give laughter therapy in children.
For comparison, 200 elderly in nursing homes that also suffer from dementia are not given the therapy of laughter. At the end of the study, the level of anxiety of participants who received laughter therapy observed 20 percent lower than the comparison group.
"The figure of 20 percent is not too large. But the figure for it, too, who would be obtained with administration of antipsychotic drugs," said Lee Dailymail Fay was quoted as saying on Friday (09/30/2011).
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