Deans' stroke musings: Flourishing After a Stroke: A Nationally Representative Portrait of Resilience and Mental Health Among Older Canadians

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, May 13, 2020

Flourishing After a Stroke: A Nationally Representative Portrait of Resilience and Mental Health Among Older Canadians

Everyone should flourish after a stroke. You just need to get the stroke medical world to focus on 100% recovery for all, they don't even have 100% recovery as a goal. They seem to be quite satisfied with the appalling failure rate of 90% that don't get fully recovered. If that describes your hospital you need to have the board of directors fired.

Flourishing After a Stroke: A Nationally Representative Portrait of Resilience and Mental Health Among Older Canadians

Esme Fuller-Thomson PhD

, Lisa A. Jensen, MSW

First Published January 9, 2019 Research Article Find in PubMed

Abstract

Objectives:
The objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of, and factors associated with, complete mental health (CMH) among stroke survivors aged 50+ years.
Method:
Bivariate and logistic regression analyses of nationally representative data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey–Mental Health of 11,157 older adults aged 50+ years (300 stroke survivors). CMH included all of these elements: (a) absence of any past-year mental illness (measured by the World Health Organization version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview [WHO-CIDI] scales), (b) almost daily happiness or satisfaction, and (c) psychological and social well-being.
Results:
Two thirds of the stroke survivors (68%) were in CMH.(So approximately a 33% failure rate, unacceptable.) Among stroke survivors, the odds of CMH were higher among those with at least one confidant (odds ratio [OR] = 4.34; 95% confidence interval [CI] = [1.52, 12.41]), those without disabling chronic pain (OR = 2.34; 95% CI = [1.24, 4.41]), and those without a history of childhood maltreatment (OR = 2.10; 95% CI = [1.09, 4.05]), depression (OR = 3.83; 95% CI = [1.10, 13.37]), or generalized anxiety disorders (OR = 3.42; 95% CI = [1.19, 9.79]).
Discussion:
These findings provide encouraging information for stroke survivors.(Not really, they have accepted the fact they will be disabled for the rest of their life but you didn't ask happiness about recovery.)

Keywords resilience, recovery, stroke, cerebrovascular accident, adverse childhood experiences