One-year visiting care service treatment with Korean medicine for a solitary elderly woman in a public health setting: A case report

Abstract

Highlights This report presents a case of 82-year-old uneducated solitary elderly women. She received one year of visiting care service with Korean medicine treatments in a public health setting. Her pain severity remained moderate after an initial decline, depressive symptoms remained almost unchanged, and cognitive functions improved after initial significant improvements over a year. Scale-Short Form Korean and the Korean version of the Mini-Mental State Examination for DementiaScreening) remained almost unchanged; however, another cognitive function scale (Korean version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment) showed noticeable improvements. This case report suggests that providing visiting care services with Korean medicine may be a viable strategy for addressing the issues of the solitary elderly.