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The Editorial Group Gesfomedia presents new books to work cognitive stimulation in adults.

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The Editorial Group Gesfomedia presents new books to work cognitive stimulation in adults.

“allow combat the intellectual impairment in elderly people or patients from diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease”.

Spain, 2011-April cognitive impairment, which consists of a progressive loss of intellectuals such as memory, writing and reading skills, is a problem that affects all people, especially in old age or due to diseases such as Alzheimer.

In order to help combat these problems that severely limit the quality of life for patients, families and therapists, the Editorial Group Gesfomedia has presented the collection of books “ cognitive stimulation for adults ”. It is a series of practical papers for the prevention and treatment of cognitive disorders is not designed as reference material, but as supportive.

In Spain there are currently over seven million people 65 years of age from which increases the incidence of cognitive disorders. To this figure we must add the nearly 900,000 affected by degenerative diseases as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease in our country precisely in 2011 is celebrated the international year of the Alzheimer, a yet incurable ailment but in which cognitive stimulation is a proven tool for the treatment and prevention.

Cognitive stimulation lets delay the onset of these cognitive disorders, or compensate for its effects, by carrying out various types of exercises. In this sense, the collection of the Gesfomedia group Editorial is divided into six workshops based on the cognitive process that is intended to stimulate or rehabilitate: attention, executive function, language, memory, perception, read-write and Viso-construcción. Each workshop consists in turn into 5 notebooks, sorted from smaller to greater complexity to conform to the clinical and cultural characteristics of the patient.

In total, the collection includes more than 2,000 sheets and 10,000 activities based on scientific models and they have been selected for their proven effectiveness preventive or rehabilitative. Used stimuli consist above all in colour photographs of everyday objects to facilitate his identification by the patients.

The books of the collection “ cognitive stimulation for adults ” can be used by professionals (psychologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, etc.) and family members who need a specialized material support throughout the process of recovery or prevention. In this sense, all notebooks contain an explanatory Guide and examples of resolved activities aimed at those responsible for therapies. Anyway, if necessary, the patient also can work directly with the material without support of a therapist, thanks to the clarity of the instructions for use.

The collection “ cognitive stimulation for adults ” is headed by the expert Andrew Sardinero Peña, psychologist specializing in Neuropsychology, which with a postgraduate degree in Neuropsychology and dementias and cognitive stimulation of the brain injury certificate. More information is available at www.tallerescognitiva.com .

“ Both therapists and family members of people with cognitive disorders need a specialized and comprehensive material allowing them to work every day on the prevention and rehabilitation of cognitive deterioration suffered by the elderly or patients with degenerative diseases ”, says the author. “ With this collection of the Editorial Group Gesfomedia, have a practical, effective and user-friendly tool use has very positive effects in the stimulation cognitive. ”

About Group Gesfomedia

Group Gesfomedia offers professional training solutions adapted to new technologies. In addition to its publications for therapists and family, just submit a new editorial line dedicated to the education of children and adolescents, which is entitled Gesfomedia education and is available in print and multimedia.

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A free guide to creating digital content accessible for persons with disabilities.

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A free guide for creating digital content accessible for persons with disabilities.

according to Toni Granollers, of GRIHO, the Web 2.0 encourages the creation of new digital barriers for persons with disabilities.

Barcelona, may of 2011- University research group GRIHO (interaction person computer and data integration research group) of the University of Lleida has presented yesterday in Barcelona, during the II Jornada Unidiscat, the guide of accessible Digital content, which is intended to put within reach of the whole society the knowledge necessary and basic to build documents and content accessible on the network.

According to Toni Granollers, director of GRIHO, “ with the Web 2.0 dynamics in continuous movement, and the proliferation of social networks, we find that anyone can become producer and publisher of content, why not enough with that website has the minimum criteria of accessibility ”. “ If, for example, the developer of a website meets accessibility requirements but another person hangs a PDF with images or graphics that do not have explanatory texts, this website or its contents will be inaccessible to users with vision problems ”, explains Granollers.

In the case of the administration or the education system, this problem is particularly relevant, because “ are talking about public services must be accessible to the entire population, and increasingly use digital ”. According to a study at UNED, there are some 12,000 people with disabilities today pursuing university studies, half of whom do so at a distance. “ More are becoming teachers themselves who made available to the digital content students, hence the need to take into account these accessibility requirements ”.

GRIHO has developed, in collaboration with the unit UdLxTothom (University for all) of the University of Lleida and Unidiscat, a simple guide that explains, step by step, how to write and structure a document with digital content to make it accessible, how to transform documents to PDF so that they continue to maintain its accessibility properties and how take into account this aspect by introducing a web content. The Guide, available from the website of GRIHO, has released under a Creative Commons license, which allows reproduction, distribution and free communication but must be credited to the author and do not perform commercial purposes. Toni Granollers clarifies that “ the guide aims to provide a tool to society as a whole so anyone can generate accessible content on the Internet; with this license, any company or institution that wants to introduce among employees can print it and use it to edit your digital content ”.

“ Our aim is that those nearly 4 million people with disabilities that exist in Spain, according to data from the National Institute of statistics (INE), have the same opportunities of access to the digital society than the rest of the population; are making a great effort to remove architectural barriers, but we’re forgetting the digital barriers ”, adds Granollers. According to the age 2008 study on disability of the INE, only 0.4% of disabled residents in centres sailing by Internet in his spare time, percentage which only amounted to 1.3 per cent if we had in mind the age group of 6 at the age of 64. “ Persons with disabilities are not comfortable with this new technology, they are continually barriers; If we take into account that the future of the Internet lies in collaboration, socialization and open content production, we find that barriers, rather than removed, it will widen, if we do not begin to take into account these small criteria we propose in the Guide ”, concludes Granollers.

GRIHO is a research group assigned to the Department of computer science and Industrial Engineering of the University of Lleida, and is a member of TECNIO network, driven by ACC1Ó that brings together the main actors experts in applied research and transfer of technology of Catalonia. The GRIHO research group is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental group which has as main objectives the teaching, research and technology transfer in the field of the discipline of human-computer interaction (IPO).

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New guide educational Audiovisual aimed at patients with COPD and their families.

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New guide educational Audiovisual aimed at patients with COPD and their family members.

presentation at the 44th National Congress SEPAR.

-the aim of the guide is promoting the well-being of patients with COPD and their families and carers, as well as raise awareness among patients of how they affect risk factors their prognosis and evolution

-The guide consists of five chapters in audio-visual support and additional material which addresses all aspects about COPD

Spain, 2011-July the guide educational Audiovisual for patients with COPD and their families, by SEPAR and sponsored by Nycomed and MSD respiratory, is an educational guide on DVD that teaches a series of concepts and skills, with the aim of achieving patients to cooperate in their treatment and rehabilitation and reduce their anxiety to the disease.

This guide, presented in the framework of the 44th National Congress of SEPAR recently held in Oviedo, aims to promote the well-being of patients with COPD and their family members/caregivers responding to the needs of knowledge and just-in-time training. In addition, provides information about the physical process and for the patient and caregiver stress factors, and is provided to the patient’s techniques and skills to facilitate the incorporation of healthy lifestyle habits that have shown to reduce exacerbations and slow the progression of the disease. Another objective is to educate patients how they affect risk factors their prognosis and evolution, get patients to cooperate in their treatment and rehabilitation (model empowerment) and reduce their anxiety to the disease.

Guide has a duration of 50 minutes and consists of forty minutes of literary history and ten minutes for annexes. The contents of the Guide are structured into chapters and it is possible to navigate between them, so that they can select the chapters of the guide that most interest you in every moment and review them as many times needed.

Consists of five chapters: information about COPD, Diagnostics, how to live with the disease, aggravation, and when the disease progresses; also has additional content explaining in what consists the inhalation technique, breathing physiotherapy and indications to quit smoking.

La COPD, a highly disabling disease

The chronic nature of the disease and disabling symptoms that produces many times people care to a relative or a friend are forced to accept large physical, emotional, and social responsibilities that often cause situations that overflow their capacities of attention and care not understanding or knowledge to handle the after-effects of the disease.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease primarily associated with tobacco that is characterized by the difficulty of the passage of air by the bronchi. This term describes two related lung diseases: chronic bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema. In addition to affecting the lungs, COPD also can cause other health problems, being the most frequent high blood pressure, ischemic heart disease, heart failure, diabetes, osteoporosis and ansiedad-depresión.

COPD is a serious problem of public health is not something novel. In Spain, Studio IBERPOC situated the prevalence of this disease by 9.1% in persons aged 40-69 and EPI-SCAN makes 10.2 per cent for a population of 40 to 80 years of age. What is surprising, according to this study, the high degree of under-diagnosis (73%) and below treatment (54%) of the disease in Spain, as well as the fact that the patients who were diagnosed had a more severe illness, increased consumption accumulated of snuff and worse quality of life related to the health.

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Delegate and develop team skills demanded by health managers.

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Delegate and develop the team, management skills demanded by the sanitary. productivity

-52.2% of the respondents choose the ability to delegate the most valued quality

-many doctors with access to managerial posts must learn to lead “ progress ”

-the website Medicoygestor.com offers a book, free download, with practical advice for health professionals who manage teams

Madrid, 2011-August according to a survey conducted by medicoygestor.com (1) among doctors who develop tasks of management, the most valued qualities among the chiefs are the ability to delegate (52.2%) and provide coaching to develop the rest of the team (47.8%). The most usual defects among the heads is also not give support (43.5%), not to recognize accomplishments (39.1%) and not give freedom to subordinates (39.1%).

Respondents also insist on the need to listen to the team, especially when we incorporate as heads to a new organization. Finally, the management style that respondents consider more appropriate is the participatory and collaborative.

The presence of a leader improves clinical outcomes

Many health professionals who manage teams recognize that they must learn to be good heads “ progress ”. It is not a failure, people management and other skills are not part of the curriculum of the career of medicine and doctors, in addition to his medical work, occupying managerial posts, try to acquire these skills primarily self-taught (2).

In a study published in 2010, Nurok et to the have shown that the presence of a leader at the head of the team can improve climate work and, more importantly, clinical outcomes. Thus, this author defends that the skills reinforce management directives, required interventions on the team to improve the results of the clinical indicators (3).

Develop leaders is not easy to

However, develop leaders in health care is not easy. Among other reasons, by the lack of time and the disconnect between the way in which we see as heads and how see us our team. Also, according to a study conducted by TRACOM (a consultancy specializing in relational styles, coaching and development behavioral) a group of 377 health managers, 55% believed that their chiefs should improve their management skills and 78% believed that their chiefs should improve their interpersonal communication skills (see), i.e., their ability to develop constructive and confidence relations (both inside and outside the Organization) and capacity to motivate others.

Another cause is that business management literature is extensive, but there is not enough materials specifically aimed at health professionals, to develop these concepts in a simple and practical way. Therefore, Medicoygestor.com has published a detailed report of 190 pages, which can be downloaded from this web site.

This document contains some keys to help health professionals to become better people managers. The book is divided into three sections: you, your team and your organization, each of which contains practical recommendations that can be applied by the reader. It also includes case studies and check-lists for use in a variety of contexts.

From the medicoygestor.com website, they pose a series of questions to those who have responsibilities of management on other health professionals. Among others:

– do we have a common goal in the team
-? does have clear functions has each Member of the team?
– what challenges we face as a team?
– What are our strong areas as team? what our weak points how team?
– do we have a defined mechanism to share information and to assess and revise our objectives?
– do?Meet all the team objectives and strategic priorities? do you share them? they support them?

Referencia:

(1) Survey conducted by the author 30 doctors positions of management (September 2010 to January 2011), from United States, England, Italy, Holland, New Zealand, Canada, Spain

(2) Markuns JF, Fraser B, Orlander JD. The path to physician leadership in community health centers: implications for training. Fam Med. 2010 Jun; 42 (6): 403-7

(3) Nurok M, Lipsitz S, Satwicz P, Kelly, Frankel. A novel method for reproducibly measuring the effects of interventions to improve emotional climate, indices of team skills and communication, and threat to patient outcome in a high-volume thoracic surgery center. Arch Surg. 2010 May; 145 (5): 489-95

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Rodeo Dental provides dental education to the children of Brownsville

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rodeo Dental provides dental education to the children of Brownsville

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, on August 23, 2011 PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE /- along the spring Rodeo Dental & Orthodontics collaborated with independent school district (ISD) of Brownsville and nurseries in the town to provide an interactive and comprehensive dental education program for children in the community. On an average day the programme came to about 600 small through schools. Towards the end of may the initiative had formed to over 6,000 children in various facilities in the area of Brownsville.

The objective of the programme was to promote dental health and oral hygiene during the formative years, but in a fun and innovative way. Rodeo Dental & Orthodontics staff visited various community colleges with its official mascot, the “MooMoo” cow to do demonstrations of appropriate techniques of oral care and give children materials of dental hygiene.

He taught at the small brushing and flossing techniques, took pictures with the pet and they received information on the formation of cavities. They could “brush” the teeth and the language of Moo, and participated in small sketches, all of this in order to practice the right way to take care of your teeth and gums. At the end of each day, every child received a certificate for having participated in the event.

Rodeo Dental & Orthodontics strives to take the leadership training in oral health within the community and is proud to support children’s dental education in the community. Rodeo Dental wishes to thank to town schools and entities linked to the achievement of this initiative.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips