Background: Driving cessation is a challenging transition for older drivers. It is indeed often associated with reduced mobility, loss of autonomy and poor quality of life, as in individuals with acquired disabilities. We examined factors that inhibit or facilitate out-of-home occupations after driving cessation (shopping, visiting/helping friends/...
Motivated by the potential devastating effect of a COVID-19 outbreak in retirement homes and long-term facilities for dependent elderly, we present the impact of worst-case scenarios in French institutions using a specific age structure and case-age fatality ratios. The death toll could equal the yearly death toll caused by seasonal influenza in th...
Objectives: Many older drivers incorrectly estimate their driving ability. The present study aimed to determine whether, and if so, to what extent unawareness of cognitive abilities affects self-awareness of driving ability. Methods: Two successive studies were conducted. A cohort study investigated cognitive self-awareness and an experimental stud...
Published in Frontiers in Neurology
Whole-body vibration (WBV) is a training method that exposes the entire body to mechanical oscillations while standing erect or seated on a vibrating platform. This method is nowadays commonly used by clinicians to improve specific motor outcomes in various sub-populations such as elderly and young healthy adults, either sedentary or well-trained. ...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundSocial participation is a modifiable health determinant influenced by physical and social aspects of the environment. Little is known about aging women’s and men’s community activities and barriers according to region and population size. This study compared social participation, desire to participate more, and perceived barriers of aging...
Published in Accident; analysis and prevention
Although several studies have sought to identify both gap-acceptance difficulties with aging and gait differences, few have examined the extent to which crossing the street is physically and cognitively demanding for older pedestrians, in such a way that street crossing can be seen as a dual task. To gain insight into this issue, this study reports...
Contexte : Selon l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, le nombre de personnes de plus de 60 ans devrait doubler d'ici 2050, représentant 22% de la population mondiale (« OMS | Vieillissement et santé », 2018). Le vieillissement de la population et de l'allongement de l'espérance de vie représente un enjeu majeur en termes de santé et de mobilité. Ce...
Preserving older pedestrians&rsquo / navigation skills in urban environments is a challenge for maintaining their quality of life. However, the maps that are usually used by older pedestrians might be unsuitable to their specificities and the existing digital aids do not consider older people&rsquo / s perceptual and cognitive declines or user expe...
Contexte : Selon l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, le nombre de personnes de plus de 60 ans devrait doubler d'ici 2050, représentant 22% de la population mondiale (« OMS | Vieillissement et santé », 2018). Le vieillissement de la population et de l'allongement de l'espérance de vie représente un enjeu majeur en termes de santé et de mobilité. Ce...
