Improving Functional Disability and Cognition in Parkinson Disease: Randomized Controlled Trial

Specifically, REHACOP group remediation with PD patients consisted of: Attention unit (4 weeks) training sustained, selective, alternant and divided attention; Memory unit (3 weeks) focusing on visual and verbal learning, recall and recognizing memory; Language unit (3 weeks) including grammar, syntax, vocabulary, verbal fluency, verbal comprehension, abstract language; Executive functions unit (2 weeks) training cognitive planning, proverbs, analogies; and Social cognition unit (1 week) exercising theory of mind, social reasoning and moral dilemmas.

The activities included drawing, reading the daily news and constructing using different materials (such as paper or wood). These activities were accomplished in a group format and with the same frequency as the implementation of REHACOP in the experimental group.