Cognitive Stimulation for Elderly Bipolar Patients
Evaluation of Cognitive Stimulation on Dysexecutive Residual Symptoms in Bipolar Patients Over 65 Years of Age
Groupe Hospitalier de la Rochelle Ré Aunis
40 participants
Mar 4, 2021
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Age is a major risk factor for the development of cognitive disorders and neurodegenerative pathologies. Cognitive disorders during the phases of bipolar disease are known to exist, and alterations increase significantly after the age of 65. Drug treatments seem to have only a limited effect. A cognitive stimulation program has proven his benefit to patients over 65 with neurodegenerative diseases (Israel, 2004). We propose to evaluate this cognitive stimulation program that we have adapted to bipolar disease.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria6
- age > 65 years old
- Diagnosis of bipolar illness for more than 10 years
- Euthymic phase
- Understands and speaks French
- Free, informed and express consent
- Mild to moderate neuro-cognitive impairments (MMS Test : 16 ≤ score < 26)
Exclusion Criteria7
- Illiteracy
- Patient participating in other therapeutic workshops (e. g. psycho-geriatric day hospital care, etc.)
- Persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision
- Persons of full age who are subject to a legal protection measure
- Persons unable to consent
- Persons who are not members of or beneficiaries of a social security scheme
- Patient's refusal to participate in the study
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Interventions
Patients participate in one session per week according to the following schedule: * 2 sensory stimulation sessions: identify sensations, emotions, how to manage them. * 2 sessions on association, verbal fluency, and imagination: language as a tool for expression in the face of illness. * 2 voluntary attention sessions: improve daily attention. * 2 sessions of intellectual structuring: stimulating and maintaining memory, carrying out external activities. * 2 sessions of structuring through language: impact on social life. * 2 sessions stimulating the temporal and spatial landmarks: agenda, daily trips.
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NCT04184375