Renée-Pier Filiou

Université de Sherbrooke | UdeS

Context Assessing older adults’ abilities to carry out their activities of daily living (ADLs) is a key determinant in the provision of homecare services for aging in place. Amidst a growing aging population and lack of human resources, continuous remote monitoring technology appears promising to support health and social care professionals (HSCPs)...

BACKGROUND Older adults with cognitive deficits face difficulties recalling daily obstacles and lack self-awareness, amplifying the challenges for homecare clinicians to obtain reliable information on functional decline and homecare needs. The result may be suboptimal service delivery. Telemonitoring of ADL has emerged as a tool to optimize ADL hom...

Background: Executive functions (EF) are central to instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). A novel approach to the assessment of the impact of EF difficulties on IADL may be through the speech acts produced when performing IADL-inspired tasks in a laboratory-apartment. Speech acts may act as a window to the difficulties encountered during...

Remote monitoring uses smart home features to promote aging in place by preventing emergencies and increasing the quality of life of older adults. However, traditional reports, data, and graphs produced by remote monitoring technologies are not well suited to older adults’ needs. Thus, the complexity for older adults to use and interpret reports ca...

Background: Connected speech (CS) deterioration appears early in the progression to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). As such, CS assessment may prove a quick, clinical speech tool and contribute to the early detection of subtle, yet significant speech changes pointing to pathological cognitive ageing. Aims: We perfor...

The language changes that occur over the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can impact communication abilities and have profound functional consequences. Picture description tasks can be used to approximate everyday communication abilities of AD patients. As various methods and variables have been studied over the years, current knowledge about the...

Introduction: Few studies investigated nostril-advantage in chemosensory perception, particularly, in relation to handedness. The aim of the present article was therefore to assess whether trigeminal/olfactory perception is altered by handedness. Methods: We tested 50 (all right-handed) and 43 (22 left-handed) participants in Studies 1 and 2, re...

The trigeminal system is a chemical sense allowing for the perception of chemosensory information in our environment. However, contrary to smell and taste, we lack a thorough understanding of the trigeminal processing of mixtures. We, therefore, investigated trigeminal perception using mixtures of 3 relatively receptor-specific agonists together wi...