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.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

A new assessment method for active ageing

I bet you would recover better if you were active aging. How is your doctor getting you there? Or is your doctor pushing the tyranny of low expectations and suggesting you won't recover much?
https://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=182879&CultureCode=en
22 January 2018 University of Jyväskylä
Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have developed a new indicator for assessing active aging. The indicator is called the University of Jyväskylä Active Ageing Scale (UJACAS). Active ageing refers to having initiative and doing things the aging person considers important. The indicator consists of a series of questions, which can be presented either in an interview or as a questionnaire. A score describing active ageing is calculated based on the responses.
- The tool helps us produce new knowledge about how older people strive to promote their wellbeing through their own actions, as per their goals, abilities and opportunities. The wellbeing of older people has often been studied as if it was solely a product of external conditions. Our new indicator opens up a new approach to ageing research, because it takes into account persons’ own actions in promoting their wellbeing, says professor Taina Rantanen, the principal investigator of the study.
The year-long process of developing the indicator was conducted as the first phase of AGNES, a larger study on active ageing, funded by the European Research Council. In total 235 persons, aged 60–94 years, took part in the study.
- In all phases of the development work, we asked the respondents to give us feedback. We wanted to get their opinion if the indicator measured essential items. We found it important that before trying to promote the wellbeing of older people we know their opinion, says Rantanen.
- Active ageing differs between individuals and takes diverse forms. It is based on personal goals and the view of the world. For example, some are interested in exercising in the nature while some like to keep their home nice and tidy, or some want to promote communal matters and are active in organizations while some others are interested in DIY. Physical exercise is an important aspect of active ageing, but not the only one. According to the present understanding, all activity is beneficial for mood and wellbeing, Professor Rantanen explains.
The idea of the indicator is that people who differ in activity get different scores. Based on item analyses, the indicator fulfills this requirement well. It gives valid results and measures the underlying construct of active ageing in different aspects of life.
The results suggest that, in general, higher activity is more beneficial than lower activity.
- In the next phase, we want to study the factors associated with activity and the consequences of active ageing to different indicators of wellbeing in old age. We also want to take the functional capacity, environmental and social support and individual differences into account, Rantanen concludes.

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