In one study performed six months after a stroke in people who were older than sixty-five years of age:
- 30% needed assistance to walk
- 26% needed help with activities such as cooking, feeding, and paying their bills
- 19% had trouble speaking, or understanding others when they speak
- 35% had feelings of depression
- 50% had some degree of paralysis on one side of the body
- 26% became nursing home residents
So where is the repository for these statistics? I want to know about younger than 65 and later than 6 months.
I wish they would follow up these people for years afterward. I don't want to know after the easy spontaneous recovery of six months, I want to know what kind of recovery occurs using hard neuroplasticity and neurogenesis.
This should be updated on a yearly basis, otherwise how do we know if progress is being made.
Hear hear! & so do loads of us! We're hardly a new phenomenon....& nobody's speaking up for the children who have strokes either.
ReplyDeleteSince having my stroke, i realise that some of my more "mild" difficulties I've had since childhood that went under the radar, were also signs of an earlier stroke, that have now subsequently got much worse. I think strokes are far more common than ppl believe & go undetected, & like me, many ppl cover their difficulties up. But anyway, more severe strokes amongst the young hardly reach the light of day.
Still, things ARE changing for the better but we're at the beginning; so keep on keepin on; it's a long up hill road, one foot in front of the other & collectively we'll make it!
Interesting, I'm on the younger side 36 and now 5 months onto this, wondering what's gonna happen in the long run. So far, recovering very well...and I wouldn't call it easy...ever, even though I'm still in the golden 6 month window. Only time will tell.
ReplyDeleteWas29 whe I I had my stroke5months ago. Still have hemiplegiia, walk with cane, no use of left hnd (right brain wffected by CVT stroke)
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