Exercise Interventions With Trained Home Helpers for Preventing Loss of Autonomy and Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Receiving Home Heath Physical Therapy T4H: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.

Background And Purpose: Older adults at risk for falls live independently in the community in their own home and have rehabilitation needs. However, little is known about whether home coaching of older adults can decrease falls at home. We sought to determine whether a novel program for preventing falls and a loss of exercise capacity, the T4H program, in which home helpers act as exercise coaches by using an information technology (IT) device, was acceptable and feasible.

Perception of domestic risks among carers for dependent older persons.

Background: Despite growing interest for home care, little evidence exists on the perception of domestic risk among carers for dependent older persons. This study aims to characterize the risks to which carers of aging dependent individuals are exposed, and to determine whether these risk dimensions are predictive for effective support, for burden, and for psychological distress.

Methods: Seventy care partners were questioned about the risk situations identified at the homes of the old people they care for, about the burden they felt in their role, and about their feelings of psychological distress.

Vocally disruptive behaviors management in older people with dementia.

Although shouting is a common psycho-behavioral symptom in geriatric institutions, the question of its assessment and treatment remains seldom studied and has rarely been the subject of specific recommendations. The combination of the focus group method and brainstorming has emerged as a methodology both relevant and feasible in geriatric facility to identify the coping strategies used by professionals and generalize guidelines for clinical observation and vocally disruptive behaviors management (shouting). The standardized gathering of professional experiences in nursing homes and their analysis with reference to results of the literature enabled the development of an analytical and clinical decision making diagram that can be an operational tool to cope with the occurrence of shouting in older people with dementia.

Make a gesture and I will tell you what you are miming. Pantomime recognition in healthy subjects.

The present paper deals with the question of how people recognize tool-use/transitive actions performed by others. The direct-matching hypothesis assumes that transitive gestures produced by others are recognized by directly activating the same gesture engrams used for making the gesture oneself. By contrast, the context hypothesis posits that the observation of the gesture alone is not sufficient, and that additional contextual information is necessary for recognizing the action.