Health-related quality of life in the elderly three years after percutaneous coronary intervention

Aims: Long-term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in the elderly after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is unknown. We 1) compared HRQOL of elderly (=70 years) with younger patients (0.05). By 36 months, the HRQOL for the older patients worsened in five of the eight subdomains (all p-values>0.05). Younger patients did not experience enduring changes in HRQOL, with the exception of role physical functioning. Predictors of impaired HRQOL were generally different for the elderly (diabetes, previous PCI) compared to younger cohorts (smoking, previous bypass surgery, ACE inhibitors), although poor six-month HRQOL, anxiety and depression were common predictors for both groups. Conclusions: Elderly PCI patients experience a deteriorating and poorer HRQOL than younger patients across three years. Contrary to younger patients, three-year HRQOL of elderly patients is irrespective of adverse events during outcomes

Collective mental time travel: remembering the past and imagining the future together

International audienceBringing research on collective memory together with research on episodic future thought, Szpunar and Szpunar (Mem Stud 9(4):376–389, 2016) have recently developed the concept of collective future thought. Individual memory and individual future thought are increasingly seen as two forms of individual mental time travel, and it is natural to see collective memory and collective future thought as forms of collective mental time travel. But how seriously should the notion of collective mental time travel be taken? This article argues that, while collective mental time travel is disanalogous in important respects to individual mental time travel, the concept of collective mental time travel nevertheless provides a useful means of organizing existing findings, while also suggesting promising directions for future research