Deans' stroke musings: The Experience of Stroke for Men in Retirement Transition

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

The Experience of Stroke for Men in Retirement Transition

I was way too young to retire so this doesn't apply to me but if it does to you ask your doctor about it and while you are at it ask why women were not studied.
http://qhr.sagepub.com/content/15/8/1022.short

Margarita Lobeck
1. Department of Trauma Care, Reconstructive Plastic and Burns Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield

Andrew R. Thompson
1. Clinical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University Of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Barnsley NHS Primary Care Trust, United Kingdom

Marie Claire Shankland
1. Department of Older Adult Psychology, Michael Carlisle Centre, Nether Edge Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Abstract

In this study, the authors aimed to explore how men manage when two significant life events, stroke and retirement, occur within a close time proximity. They selected 7 men purposively who were either in the process of planning to retire or had just retired when they had suffered a stroke, and used interpretive phenomenological analysis to guide data collection and to analyze the resulting transcripts. The authors derived three interrelated processes with eight subthemes. The three themes were associated with ambivalence about retirement, the impact of the stroke, and healing and adjustment. The themes suggested that significant interplay existed between the meanings made of the two life events. The emergent themes implied that stroke had a profound impact on the men’s lives and affected them on a number of levels. The experience of suffering a stroke also led to some positive reframing of life.