Objective: Using the FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) Heroes educational programme, this intervention sought to educate residents in a nursing home to recognise and recall the three main stroke symptoms and prepare them to act in an appropriate way, in the event of a stroke emergency. Design: Participatory action research. Setting: A nursing home…

A psychoeducational face-to-face training program (Keep Your Brain Fit!) was developed to support the working population in coping with age-related cognitive changes and taking proactive preventive measures to maintain cognitive health. A feasibility study was conducted to test the training program presented in a workshop format. Participants…

Most neuropsychological assessments of episodic memory bear little similarity to the events that patients actually experience as memories in daily life. The first aim of this study was to use a virtual environment to characterize episodic memory profiles in an ecological fashion, which includes memory for central and perceptual details,…