Factors Determining the Functional Efficiency of Patients After Ischemic Stroke After Neurological Rehabilitation.

Introduction: The factors determining the level of functional efficiency in patients after ischemic stroke are: age, sex, physical condition, mental activity before stroke, previous neurological deficits, comorbidities, nutritional status and the course of the stroke.

Aim: Assessment of the functional efficiency of patients before and after rehabilitation due to ischemic stroke and determination of the influence of selected factors on the effects of rehabilitation measured by functional efficiency.

Material And Methods: The study was conducted in neurological rehabilitation centers among 82 people diagnosed with ischemic stroke.

Lived experience, perceptions, and expectations of close relatives of nursing home residents and strengths-based nursing: a phenomenological approach.

Conflicts between residents' families and professionals are frequently described in nursing homes. This phenomenological study aims to describe and understand the experience, expectations and needs of residents' relatives. Forty-three interviews were conducted in six selected nursing homes.

Postadychute-AG, Detection, and Prevention of the Risk of Falling Among Elderly People in Nursing Homes: Protocol of a Multicentre and Prospective Intervention Study.

While falls among the elderly is a public health issue, because of the social, medical, and economic burden they represent, the tools to predict falls are limited. Posturography has been developed to distinguish fallers from non-fallers, however, there is too little data to show how predictions change as older adults' physical abilities improve. The Postadychute-AG clinical trial aims to evaluate the evolution of posturographic parameters in relation to the improvement of balance through adapted physical activity (APA) programs.

[Lived experience, perceptions, and expectations of close relatives of nursing home residents and strength-based nursing, a phenomenological approach].

Dissensions between residents' families and professionals are frequently described in nursing homes. This phenomenological study aims to describe and understand experience, expectations and needs of residents' relatives. Forty-three interviews were conducted in the 6 selected nursing homes.

[Ethics and Covid-19 in nursing homes, a return of experience].

Covid epidemic and containment have generated numerous ethical dilemmas. Autonomy is the most frequently jeopardized ethical principle. Continued commitment has run into specific funerary rules of deceased residents.

Center of pressure displacement characteristics differentiate fall risk in older people: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

Falling is the second most prevalent cause of accidental death in the world. Currently available clinical tests to assess balance in older people are insufficiently sensitive to screen for fall risk in this population. Laboratory tests that record the center of pressure (COP) trajectory could overcome this problem but despite their widespread use, the choice of COP trajectory features for use as a biomarker of fall risk lacks consensus.

Expectations and Needs of Families in Nursing Homes: An Integrative Review.

A better understanding of the expectations and needs of the families of nursing home residents is needed for a constructive and sustainable relationship of mutual trust. The objective of this study was to understand the expectations of families of nursing home residents described in the literature. A systematic integrative review of the literature was conducted.

Center of pressure characteristics from quiet standing measures to predict the risk of falling in older adults: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Falling is the most common accident of daily living and the second most prevalent cause of accidental death in the world. The complex nature of risk factors associated with falling makes those at risk amongst the elderly population difficult to identify. Commonly used clinical tests have limitations when it comes to reliably detecting the risk of falling, but existing laboratory tests, such as force platform measurements, represent one method of overcoming this lack of a test.

[Occupational burnout in geriatrics, an Echo complex].

Caregivers in nursing homes are exposed to numerous risk factors of occupational burnout. Lack of time, work overload, caring for frail people, an imbalance between hierarchical demands and the amount of decision-making power accorded to them, as well as insufficient resources: it is difficult to provide individualised care to patients in these conditions. There are, however, ways to improve this situation.

Associations between morningness/eveningness and psychopathology: an epidemiological survey in three in-patient psychiatric clinics.

Objective: This study aims to examine the association between the chronotype (morningness/eveningness) and specific mental disorders.

Methods: Cross-sectional epidemiological study conducted in three in-patient clinical settings. A total of 1468 consecutive in-patients who gave their written consent were enrolled.

3-(2,4-dimethoxybenzylidene)-anabaseine: a promising candidate drug for Alzheimer's disease?

3-(2,4-dimethoxybenzylidene)-anabaseine is an analog of the paralytic alkaloid, anabaseine, from the ribbon worms Amphiporus sp., that shows numerous properties, in particular an agonist activity on alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. This article reviews these properties and explains to what extent they could be valuable to control symptomatology and/or neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease.

[Risk of deep venous thrombosis during an air flight: prevention and counselling at the counter].

Worldwide air traffic reaches about 2.3 billion passengers per year. The increasing number of persons at thrombo-embolic risk, together with potentially severe or fatal complications of deep venous thrombosis, suggests community pharmacists can give basic preventive advice to persons identified as at risk.

[Cardiovascular disease and aircraft transportation: specificities and issues].

With the development of air transport and travel to distant destinations, the number of passengers and elderly passengers on board increases each year. In this population, cardiovascular events are a major concern. Among medical incidents occurring in-flight they are second-ranked (10%) behind gastrointestinal disorders (25%).

Screening of patients with cognitive impairment when entering a rehabilitation unit.

Aim: The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of an early screening of cognitive impairment in rehabilitation units, and the proportion of cognitive impairments (in particular, Alzheimer's disease) among this population.

Methods: This is a multicentric, non-interventional, epidemiological, transverse, projective and comprehensive study of five French rehabilitation units.

Results: This study on 279 people over 75 years found 105 new cases of cognitive impairments, among which 62 cases of dementia.