Increase Writing Performance Using A Shaping Procedure With A Patient With Sequelae Caused By Cardiovascular Accident - Increase Writing Performance Using A Shaping Procedure With A Patient With Sequelae Caused By Cardiovascular Accident - Open Access Pub

Background and Objective: Behavioral procedures have proven to be effective with elderly adults in nursing home. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a shaping procedure as a means of increasing writing performance. More specifically, our aim was to reeducate a motor behavior in a patient for whom the behavior was no longer present. Materials and Methods: The participant was an elderly (76-year-old) who had sequelae from a cardiovascular accident since 2011, and was asked to write some selected words. Data were collected though face-to-face interviews then analyzed using cotation methods. Results: The shaping and chaining procedures were efficient and performance of writing increased, even for infrequent words. Conclusion: Increasing writing performance is possible for the elderly people, even if they have suffered from cardiovascular accidents in the past. Here we used a successful brief shaping procedure to enhance quickly that ability. Behavioral procedures have proven to be effective with elderly adults in nursing home. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a shaping procedure as a means of increasing writing performance. More specifically, our aim was to reeducate a motor behavior in a patient for whom the behavior was no longer present. The participant was an elderly (76-year-old) who had sequelae from a cardiovascular accident since 2011, and was asked to write some selected words. Data were collected though face-to-face interviews then analyzed using cotation methods. The shaping and chaining procedures were efficient and performance of writing increased, even for infrequent words. Increasing writing performance is possible for the elderly people, even if they have suffered from cardiovascular accidents in the past. Here we used a successful brief shaping procedure to enhance quickly that ability. DOI10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-17-1575 Concerns about care for the elderly raise a societal issue. In 2003, cardiovascular diseases caused 17 million of deaths, one third of all deaths in the world1. Caring for patients who have had a cardiovascular accident is needed to prevent another accident, caused by the immediate and long term clinical consequences of the stroke2. Higher-order cognitive abilities like calculation or naming are considered as having an important role to play in stroke rehabilitation3. Moreover, the use of intensive and multidisciplinary rehabilitation exercises implemented by physiotherapists, dieticians and speech therapists, has been shown to positively influence functional