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Evaluating the Function of the Foot Core System in the Elderly
Published on: March 11, 2022
[Understanding the suffering of the elderly]
Philippe Thomas1, Gérard Chandès1, Cyril Hazif-Thomas2
1Centre de recherches sémiotiques (Ceres), EA 3648, Université de Limoges, 39, rue Camille-Guérin, 87000 Limoges, France.
Abstract:
Alzheimer's disease is an organic disease of the brain affecting mainly elderly people. Drawing on patients' imaginations on a daily basis or art therapy allow them, despite the cognitive impairments, to construct symbolic objects, analogues, to help give back meaning to their life. If the use of symbolisation when evoking the real object is not possible, the meaning is therefore constructed using the figurative dimension, an analogue substituting the lost and absent object, too painful to evoke again.
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