[Cognitive mobility and physical movements, of critical importance]. / Mobilité cognitive et mouvements physiques, une importance capitale.

Ageing is often described as a crisis. It brings about a rupture with a previous balance. Physical activities can enable people to adapt to growing old as a dynamic process of self-investment. They are also methods of non-medication treatment for Alzheimer's and related diseases. Wandering, so frequent in patients suffering from cognitive disorders, would appear to signify the importance of movement as a principle of returning to the body and preverbal functionality.

[Relationship-based care in geriatrics]. / Le soin relationnel en gériatrie.

If relationship-based care needs to be defended and considered as part of the patient's overall care, in geriatrics it is still too often placed at the opposite end of the spectrum to technical care. Two underlying questions emerge, the first being on the level of the elderly person and the risks of caregivers projecting themselves onto the latter, the second concerns more the caregiver and what can stand in the way in his/her relationship with the elderly person.