The main objective of the study is to assess the rate of patients with psycho-cognitive troubles among hospitalised elderly patients.
It also aims to assess this rate among patients 1) when the geriatrics mobile unit is involved in the screening of these troubles and 2) when it is not. All the patients (75 and older) hospitalised in the internal medicine department of a suburban Parisian hospital are included in the study and their psycho-cognitive functions assessed by a geriatrics physician, using 3 validated tests. The result of this screening provides the rate of psycho-cognitive troubles among patients that would not have been tested by a geriatrics physician in usual care. It assesses the interest of a systematic evaluation of elderly patients by the geriatric mobile unit.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
Hopital Louis Mourier, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris
Colombes, France
rate of patients with psycho-cognitive troubles among hospitalised elderly patients
Time frame: 1 day
rates of patients with psycho-cognitive troubles 1) when the geriatrics mobile unit is involved in the screening of these troubles and 2) when it is not; and comparison of these rates
Time frame: 1 day
comparison of the rates of diagnosed dementia among 300 hospitalised patients, between 2006 and 2008 (before and after the creation of the geriatric mobile unit)
Time frame: 2 years
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