Your doctor's responsibility is to have protocols that bring back your
5 lost cognitive years from the stroke, because you are going to fall a lot post stroke. You can't rely on whatever fall prevention strategy your therapist has you doing. You will fall.
Executive function predicts decline in mobility after a fall: The MYHAT study
Experimental Gerontology — Hughes TF, et al. | April 15, 2020
Via following candidates from the Monongahela Youghiogheny Healthy
Aging Team (MYHAT) study annually for up to 9 years for incident falls,
researchers ascertained if older adults with better cognitive function
were more resilient to mobility decline after a fall. In relation to
prefall cognition (executive function, attention, memory, and
visuospatial function) among incident fallers (n = 598, mean age
79.1, SD = 7.0), they investigated one-year (mean 1.0 year, SD 0.1)
mobility transition pre to postfall using the Timed Up and Go. Results
indicated that higher executive function can give resilience to
decline in mobility after a fall, particularly among older adults with
other risk factors for reduced mobility. For those who were older,
sedentary, and had lower BMI, the effect was significantly
stronger. Findings suggested an association of higher scores in memory
tests, but not in other domains, with less mobility decline among
non-fallers.
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