Cognitive Correlates of Timed Up and Go Subtasks in Older People with Preserved Cognition, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer's Disease

Objective To determine whether impaired Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) subtask performances are associated with specific cognitive domains among older people with preserved cognition (PC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). Design TUG subtasks performances were assessed by the Qualisys motion system. Cognition was assessed by Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination and the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB). Results The highest correlations with transition subtasks were with aspects of executive function, i.e. the fluency domain in the PC group (n = 40), FAB scores in the MCI group (n = 40), and the visuospatial domain in the AD group (n = 38). No significant associations were found between the walking subtasks and cognition in any group. Multivariate linear regression models identified the fluency domain as an independent predictor of turn-to-walk and turn-to-sit measures in the PC group, and the visuospatial domain as an independent predictor of turn-to-walk and turn-to-sit measures in the AD group, adjusted for age and sex. Conclusions Poorer executive functioning was associated with impaired transition mobility in all groups. The significant associations between visuospatial impairment and poor transition mobility in the AD participants may provide insight into why this group has an elevated fall risk

A trajetória do Sindicato Estadual dos Profissionais da Educação do Rio de Janeiro (Sepe-RJ) na luta pela saúde no trabalho The trajectory of the State Union of Education Professionals of Rio de Janeiro (SEPE-RJ) in the struggle for workplace health

Este estudo, um dos produtos do Curso de Especialização em Saúde do Trabalhador, ano 2002, do Centro de Estudos da Saúde do Trabalhador e Ecologia Humana (CESTEH) da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (ENSP), Fiocruz, teve como objetivo investigar a atuação do movimento sindical na luta pela saúde no trabalho como estratégia de fortalecimento da organização e da unificação dos trabalhadores. Analisou-se a trajetória do Sindicato Estadual dos Profissionais de Educação - Sepe/RJ, de 1997 a 2002, e sua relação com a pesquisa-formação que investiga as condições de saúde e trabalho na escola pública, desenvolvida através de um grupo interinstitucional e multiprofissional envolvendo a Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, a Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, e a Universidade Federal da Paraíba, em parceria com o Sindicato Estadual dos Profissionais da Educação (Sepe-RJ) e o Sindicato de Trabalhadores da Educação do Município de João Pessoa (Sintem-PB). O estudo permite compreender que se trata de um movimento, antes de tudo, de resistência diferenciada, de renovação política de organização dos trabalhadores, podendo representar, ainda, um meio dinamizador da participação dos "trabalhadores de base", opondo-se ao cenário de fragilização sindical diante da crise do capitalismo no contexto neoliberal.<br>This study, one of the products of the Course of Specialisation in Worker's Health and Human Ecology of the Centre of Studies of Worker's Health and Human Ecology (CESTEH) of the National School of Public Health (ESNP), Oswaldo Cruz Foudation (Fiocruz) had as objective the investigation of the performance of the union movement in the fight for health at work as a strategy to enhance the organisation and unification of the workers. We analysed the trajectory of the State Union of the Education Professionals - SEPE-RJ -, from 1997 to 2000, and its relationship with a research that investigates health and work conditions of workers of education, developed by CESTEH/ENSP/Fiocruz, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), by association with SEPE-RJ and with Municipal Union of the Education Workers of João Pessoa - Paraíba (SINTEM-PB). This study shows a movement, above all, with a different resistance, with political renovation of worker’s organisation, that can still represent a dynamic place of the base participation, putting in front of the union weakness process facing the neoliberal system