Bernard Ledésert

TL;DR: To assess the extent to which loss of ability to perform everyday activities in early stage senile dementia is worsened by the presence of depressive illness, a large number of patients with a history of depression are surveyed.

TL;DR: Results showed that parents were globally satisfied with providers’ involvement and motivation, but they felt they were not involved enough in their child's individualized program, that communication with providers was insufficient and that the services lacked ASD’s specific tools and interventions.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional study of cognitive performance of 575 normal elderly persons suggests considerable heterogeneity at each age level, while a number of cognitive functions (articulation, reading, semantic matching, comprehension of syntax and implicit memory) showed no difference with age, explicit memory, and other linguistic and visuospatial capacities, were significantly poorer.

TL;DR: Results suggest that persons in communal care are less dependent, report less depressive symptomatology, are more mobile, engage in verbal communication more frequently and have fewer language difficulties than persons in hospital care, although no differences are found between the two groups in terms of dementia severity.

TL;DR: This work investigated whether EPS are associated with functional impairment in older people with cognitive decline and found them to be associated withfunctional impairment.