Diseases that cause cognitive impairment requiring cognitive rehabilitation are very diverse, including dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease, brain tumors, metabolic diseases, head trauma, side effects of cancer treatment, chronic alcoholism, and chronic diseases.
People suffering from cognitive impairment due to this disease must receive treatment for the underlying disease as well as non-pharmacological treatments such as cognitive rehabilitation, reminiscence therapy, and exercise therapy.
Cognitive rehabilitation is a comprehensive treatment that includes cognitive training and cognitive stimulation, setting individual treatment goals for each patient.


《Seoul Asan Medical Center's Cognitive Rehabilitation Workbook》 contains the treatments actually performed by cognitive rehabilitation specialists in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Seoul Asan Medical Center on patients at the hospital. It was created so that cognitive training and treatment conducted in a hospital environment can be used at home, at dementia care centers, senior welfare centers, hospitals, and caring centers.

Another advantage is that it comprehensively introduces not only various cognitive training problems based on the know-how of the Seoul Asan Medical Center's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, but also physical activities that patients with cognitive impairment can apply on a daily basis.
Regular physical activity through exercise is very important in cognitive rehabilitation because physical exercise helps maintain cognitive function by increasing blood flow to the brain.
In the past, mainly light exercise was recommended, but recently, high-intensity exercise such as muscle strengthening exercises are also known to be effective depending on the patient's ability.


A lack of awareness of cognitive rehabilitation, a serious shortage of medical institutions that provide comprehensive dementia cognitive rehabilitation, and the financial burden of non-covered treatment are making it difficult to promote cognitive rehabilitation in reality.
Even Seoul Asan Medical Center, which has been consistently providing cognitive rehabilitation, is unfortunately unable to provide cognitive rehabilitation to patients more than once or twice a week due to a lack of treatment space and personnel.
Utilizing the Seoul Asan Medical Center Cognitive Rehabilitation Workbook will help those in need of cognitive rehabilitation, including those with dementia, recover and improve their quality of life.