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.

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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.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Hearing Aids Postpone Dementia for Seniors

Is your doctor testing you for hearing ability post-stroke?

Hearing Aids Postpone Dementia for Seniors

  1. Hélène Amieva PhD*,
  2. Camille Ouvrard MSc,
  3. Caroline Giulioli MSc,
  4. Céline Meillon MSc,
  5. Laetitia Rullier PhD and
  6. Jean-François Dartigues MD, PhD
Article first published online: 20 OCT 2015
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13649
Issue
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volume 63, Issue 10, pages 2099–2104, October 2015
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Keywords:

  • hearing loss;
  • hearing aids;
  • cognitive decline;
  • elderly

Objectives

To investigate the association between hearing loss, hearing aid use, and cognitive decline.

Design

Prospective population-based study.

Setting

Data gathered from the Personnes Agées QUID study, a cohort study begun in 1989–90.

Participants

Individuals aged 65 and older (N = 3,670).

Measurements

At baseline, hearing loss was determined using a questionnaire assessing self-perceived hearing loss; 137 subjects reported major hearing loss, 1,139 reported moderate problems (difficulty following the conversation when several persons talk at the same time or in a noisy background), and 2,394 reported no hearing trouble. Cognitive decline was measured using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), administered at follow-up visits over 25 years.

Results

Self-reported hearing loss was significantly associated with lower baseline MMSE score (β = −0.69, P < .001) and greater decline during the 25-year follow-up period (β = −0.04, P = .01) independent of age, sex, and education. A difference in the rate of change in MMSE score over the 25-year follow-up was observed between participants with hearing loss not using hearing aids and controls (β = −0.06, P < .001). In contrast, subjects with hearing loss using a hearing aid had no difference in cognitive decline (β = 0.07, P = .08) from controls.

Conclusion

Self-reported hearing loss is associated with accelerated cognitive decline in older adults; hearing aid use attenuates such decline.
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