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Aging has becoming a serious problem to be solved in wide area of the world. In this study coloring was taking place at the pay nursing home for the aged tenant as part of the recreation, and the influence to the tenant was verified. It was suggested that the coloring showed effect to improvement s for reducing the frequency of wandering around and petition of excretion of the tenant. Coloring is easily done compared to painting and descriptions, also regardless to the needing care degree, more over a care worker’s burden can also be reduced. As the result shows, coloring is suggested as an activity that should be taken as one of the recreations at the pay nursing home.
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Kawabata, S. et al. (2013). Effect Evaluation of Recreational Coloring Carried Out at Pay Nursing Home. In: Duffy, V.G. (eds) Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management. Healthcare and Safety of the Environment and Transport. DHM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8025. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39173-6_26
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