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บทคัดย่อ

he purpose of the research is to develop a Protection Alzheimer’s Disease Exercise Game Application for Thai Elderly People which emphasize on result of improvement
in Cognitive Function. The method is using (Montreal Cognitive Assesment: MoCa-Test) to
compare the result score of MoCa-Test between before and after playing with Protection
Alzheimer’s Disease Exercise Game Application for Thai Elderly People. The sample
groups are separated into 3 groups 1) Group of people exercise with Protection Alzheimer’s Disease Exercise Game Application for Thai Elderly People. (Experimental Group) 2)
Group of people exercise without Protection Alzheimer’s Disease Exercise Game Application for Thai Elderly People. (Control Group) 3) Group of people do not exercise. (Control
Group) The samples are healthy elderly Thai people. The average of age of the samples in
experimental and control group is 55-75 years old, 14 peoples. The research instrument is
Protection Alzheimer’s Disease Exercise Game Application for Thai Elderly People, the
sample groups need to take MoCa-Test to get the result of cognitive assessment, then
experimental group exercises with Protection Alzheimer’s Disease Exercise Game Application for Thai Elderly People for a period of time (10 times, 1 month) while the other control
groups waiting for 1 month then have the sample take MoCa-Test again to compare the
result of improvement in cognitive function between each groups. The finding showed that
group of people who exercise with application has significantly more result of improvement
in cognitive function than other 2 groups that never use application. The study showed that
Protection Alzheimer’s Disease Exercise Game Application for Thai Elderly People can be
used for training cognitive function, also can be another option for recreation for elderly
Thai people.