[Preventing decline of autonomy through the promotion of mental health: a randomized clinical trial for older adults with disabilities].

Among older adults with disabilities, maintaining active aging can often be compromised. However, the literature highlights a positive link between mental health and autonomy on one hand, and self-determined motivation on the other. Therefore, self-determined motivation may be improved by promoting mental health and, in the end, older adults autonomy.

[Promoting the mental health of elderly people with physical disabilities: a systematic review of available home and facility-based interventions].

Introduction: Promoting the mental health of vulnerable elderly patients is a public health priority.

Context: In many cases, mental health interventions for elderly people are not appropriate for those with multiple physical disabilities.

Objectives: This article aims to provide gerontology professionals with an overview of the types of interventions available based on their practice setting (home or long-term care facility) and the characteristics of the people who use them (over 75 years old with physical disabilities).

The Lexical Association Technique: A randomized controlled trial with breast cancer patients.

Low self-esteem is a vulnerability factor for depressive disorders, and the prevention of psychological disorders is essential in cancer patients. The enhancement of self-esteem in breast cancer patients may therefore be an appropriate clinical target. Previous studies have shown the efficacy of the Lexical Association Technique to enhance self-esteem in healthy subjects.

Impact of an overweight body representation in virtual reality on locomotion in a motor imagery task.

Virtual reality immersion enables a person to embody avatars that strongly deviate from his/her biological body. Interestingly, the person's expectations about the embodied avatar lead to congruous behavior, phenomenon referred to as the Proteus effect. The objective of the present study was to investigate, in virtual reality, the relationship between body-shape representation and expected physical abilities in a locomotor imagery task, in the context of overweight avatar embodiment.

How Should Self-Esteem Be Considered in Cancer Patients?

Numerous studies showed that cancer significantly increases the risk of developing depressive and anxious symptoms. It has been shown that self-esteem is an important psychological resource and is associated with many health behaviors. Furthermore, the vulnerability model of low self-esteem, which has received strong empirical support, highlights that low self-esteem is a real risk factor in the development of depressive disorders.

Personnes âgées à domicile avec limitations fonctionnelles : étude préliminaire d'une intervention centrée sur le bien-être et l'autonomie.

In the context of demographic aging, preventing autonomy loss is a major issue. Adapting care systems to help keep seniors at home is a daily challenge. "La Mutualité Française", a national mutual insurance company, has implemented in one of its healthcare services an innovative program to strengthen well-being: "The Well-Being Autonomy Pole.

The impact of embodying an "elderly" body avatar on motor imagery.

When an individual embodies an avatar, the latter's characteristics or stereotype can change the individual's behavior and attitudes; this is known as the Proteus effect. Here, we looked at whether the embodiment of an avatar resembling an elderly adult (seen from a first-person perspective and facing a virtual mirror) changed mentally represented physical activity in a motor imagery task performed by young adult participants (N = 52). To ensure that the impact of embodiment of an elderly avatar on the motor imagery task was not influenced by a potentially confounded stereotype assimilation effect (due to the mere presence of an avatar), a "young" avatar and an "elderly" avatar were always present together in the virtual environment-even though only one (the self-avatar) was embodied at a given time.

Distinct effects of cognitive versus somatic anxiety on cognitive performance in old age: the role of working memory capacity.

The adverse effects of anxiety on cognition are widely recognized. According to Attentional Control Theory, worry (i.e.

Motivation as a Mediator of the Relation Between Cognitive Reserve and Cognitive Performance.

Objectives: Interindividual differences in cognitive aging may be explained by differences in cognitive reserve (CR) that are built up across the life span. A plausible but underresearched mechanism for these differences is that CR helps compensating cognitive decline by enhancing motivation to cope with challenging cognitive situations. Theories of motivation on cognition suggest that perceived capacity and intrinsic motivation may be key mediators in this respect.

Emotional decoding abilities in Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis.

Studies on emotional processing in Alzheimer's disease (AD) have reported abnormalities in emotional decoding. However, it remains unclear whether the impairment depends on a general cognitive decline that characterizes these patients or is an independent deficit. We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of existing studies that compared AD patients with age-matched healthy older adults (HOA) on measures of emotional decoding abilities.

Evaluating short-term and working memory in older adults: French normative data.

Short-term and working memory (WM) capacities are subject to change with ageing, both in normal older adults and in patients with degenerative or non-degenerative neurological disease. Few normative data are available for comparisons of short-term and WM capacities in the verbal, spatial and visual domains. To provide researchers and clinicians with a set of standardised tasks that assess short-term and WM using verbal and visuospatial materials, and to present normative data for that set of tasks.

Are memory self-efficacy and memory performance related? A meta-analysis.

The association between memory self-efficacy (MSE) and memory performance is highly documented in the literature. However, previous studies have produced inconsistent results, and there is no consensus on the existence of a significant link between these two variables. In order to evaluate whether or not the effect size of the MSE-memory performance relationship in healthy adults is significant and to test several theory-driven moderators, we conducted a meta-analysis of published and unpublished studies.