Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
2703508 | Journal de Réadaptation Médicale : Pratique et Formation en Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation | 2014 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The disabilities affecting the lives of victims of severe head injury may be largely attributed to dysexecutive cognitive-behavioral syndromes. The usual paper-and-pencil tests as well as ecological assessments have limited usefulness where the most severe dysexecutive syndromes are concerned, and prove of little pertinence in displaying the residual initiative-taking capacities of these individuals. For this reason, we have constructed, for the residents of a specialized care home, a method of contextualized assessment which aims to describe the evolution of executive functions as they benefit from social-medical accompaniment throughout the chronic phase. This assessment consists in analyzing the execution script for two simple tasks. The first, which has more explicit instructions, concerns the preparing of a sandwich. The second task is “free”. This experiment is based on a definition of executive functions which is not exclusively cognitive and is part of a project seeking to describe the evolution of the cognitive and psychological functioning of brain-injured patients living in a home for specialized care in the framework of an ongoing research attempt to evaluate daily care.
Related Topics
Health Sciences
Medicine and Dentistry
Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
Authors
L. Simsolo, A.-M. Caire, P. Pradat-Diehl,