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This study aimed at the old people who had a dementia and couldn’t participate actively in leisure
activities, they take the big rate of persons in social welfare facilities. This study used recreation through Korean tradition plays as mediating program, which had an effect to stimulate their curiosities they might have had in their childhood. Jan 28th 2009 to Mar 23rd 2009, twice a week, fifteen times in all, traditional plays a therapeutic recreation program was executed. The result in death receiving attitudes got from the execution is as follows. First, anxiety for afterdeath of their death receiving attitudes showed a significant difference between before and after program execution. This means that diverting them to traditional plays decreased their anxiety for afterdeath, or they got psychic and emotional stabilities through immersing themselves in such plays. Second, the most changes in anxieties for deathbed and loss were made. While doing traditional plays, they seemed to make positive changes in these anxieties. Third, however, there was not a significant change in their beliefs in afterlife of death receiving attitudes, Since the targets of experiment were in a specific religion group and the faith in their religion was deep, their beliefs in afterlife were rather bigger than the effect of traditional plays. As you see from this result, it makes sense that a therapeutic recreation program through traditional plays made positive changes of old people having dementia. As one of preparations for coming old age and super old age society, the development of various leisure-educating programs is urgent. More expert, scientific and clinical experiments are necessary. The life of human being is dignified. It must be valued most from the view point of social welfare. Therefore, we should make every efforts to help them live the rest of their lives happily and comfortably.