An Analysis of the Public Financial Support Eligibility Rule for French Dependent Elders with Alzheimer's Disease.

Background: It is crucial to define health policies that target patients with the highest needs. In France, public financial support is provided to dependent patients: it can be used to finance informal care time and nonmedical care use. Eligibility for public subsidies and reimbursement of costs is associated with a specific tool: the autonomie gérontologie groupes iso-ressources (AGGIR) scale score.

Factors associated with dementia among elderly people living in two cities in Central Africa: the EDAC multicenter study.

Risk factors for dementia in American and European countries have been well investigated. However, little research has been carried out in sub-Saharan Africa, where life events as well as environmental, socio-economic, and modifiable risk factors (i.e.

Prevalence of dementia among elderly people living in Cotonou, an urban area of Benin (West Africa).

Background/aims: The population of Benin is, like those of most developing countries, aging; dementia is therefore a major concern. Our goal was to estimate the prevalence of dementia in an elderly population living in urban Benin.

Methods: In a cross-sectional community-based study, people aged 65 years and above were screened using the Community Screening Interview for Dementia and the Five-Word Test.

Prevalence of dementia in elderly living in two cities of Central Africa: the EDAC survey.

Background: Data on dementia from low- and middle-income countries are still necessary to quantify the burden of this condition. This multicenter cross-sectional study aimed at estimating the prevalence of dementia in 2 large cities of Central Africa.

Methods: General population door-to-door surveys were conducted in the districts of Bangui (Republic of Central Africa) and Brazzaville (Congo) in elderly aged ≥ 65 years.

[Activities in retired people and the risk of dementia].

It is necessary to develop the prevention of Alzheimer's disease, because of the increase in the number of cases and unavailability of a curative treatment. From the data of the cohort PAQUID, we studied the risk of dementia according to leisure activities and the age of cessation of professional activity. The practice of a sport and reading decreases by 25% the risk of dementia during 15 years.

[Topography of ischemic strokes in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire): a computed tomographic approach].

Objective: The authors used computed tomography (CT) to assess and categorize the topography of ischemic strokes (IS) among blacks living in Abidjan, the commercial and administrative center of Côte d'Ivoire, in West Africa.

Methods: This retrospective study analyzed CT data of patients admitted to the Sainte Anne Marie Polyclinic (the principal private hospital in the country) and to the neurology department of the university hospital center in Cocody, from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2001. The study included patients who met World Health Organisation criteria for stroke and had CT performed during the hospitalization for this stroke.

[Vascular risk factors and Alzheimer disease risk: epidemiological studies review].

Etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is still undefined in its most frequent sporadic type, but a role of vascular risk factor is more and more evocated in its pathophysiology. This role enables to hope that preventive or curative care of vascular risk factors could decrease AD incidence. Among these factors, high blood pressure, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia and tobacco consumption were the most studied.

[Tuberculosis and stroke: case report and literature review].

Unlabelled: Tuberculosis remains a public health problem in Côte-d'Ivoire, a sub-saharan region country, where infection with a prevalence of 2-10% increase tuberculosis incidence assesed to 290 per 100,000 habitants. Authors report a case of a ischemic stroke (IS) and unknown HIV and tuberculosis infection; discuss these infections responsibility in the occurrence of this IS and past neurological signs. The patient presented with a left hemiparesis without infectious sign nor drowsiness.

[Causes of encephalopathy: descriptive study at Abidjan (Cote-d'Ivoire)].

Objective: Assess the etiology and course of cases of encephalopathy seen in the neurology department of the Cocody University Hospital in Abidjan (Côte-d'Ivoire), a city of more than three million inhabitants.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of patients admitted to the hospital neurology unit from 1 December, 1998, through 31 December, 2000; with a lesion of the brain, brainstem, cerebellum or meninges. Lesions were either confirmed by computed tomography or clinically obvious; MRI was unavailable.