Cooking activity for patients with Alzheimer’s disease: a review

As a degenerative nervous system disease, Alzheimer s disease (AD), can damage memory and cognitive function. Cooking activity, an instrumental activity of daily life, is one of the nonpharmacological therapies with positive effect on AD. Here, we review the effectiveness of cooking activity on AD. This paper shows that cooking activity can not only improve patient s emotional state and alleviate the conduct disorder, but also ease the burden of professional caregiver. Cooking activity also has certain positive effects on patient s cognition, autonomy and memory function. Now, as one of the instrumental activities of daily life, cooking activity has developed as a useful tool in the intervention trials, serious game, virtual reality training and assessment of daily living activities.