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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of physical ac-tivity and nutrition education programs on mild dementia patients with changes in exercise function and eating habits. We examined the ef-fects of pre and post program on 23 old patients with dementia who were diagnosed with menarche or mild dementia with the permission of the dementia center in Incheon city and visited from April to July 2017. The Mini-Mental State Examination score of the subjects in this study was 19.68±3.25, consisting of mild dementia patients. After per-forming the program for 16 weeks, the senior fitness test showed a sig-nificant change in the arm curl test, chair sit-and-reach test, and 2-min step test, and a total score of mini nutrition assessment increased from 19.16 to 21.0. In particular, in a level 2 evaluation, which contains more details such as the condition of taking drugs, number of daily meals, protein food intake condition, intake of vegetables, fruit, and water, whether one can eat alone, and evaluation of nutritive condition, a sig-nificant increase from 9.78 to 11.28 was verified. There is a significant increase in nutrition condition recovery as a result of nutrition educa-tion. In comparing pre and post program, a significant result was con-firmed, and there was significance to provide the basic empirical data for the exercise and dietary life nutritional education of mild dementia patients.