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Filter by:The risk of falling affects more than one third of people over 65 years old and over 50% of persons over 80 years. These falls have important consequences for the autonomy of the elderly patient and also increase the risk of sequelae and death. The goal of this study is to evaluate a personalized rehabilitation program for elderly patients that fall for the first time and to measure the impact on the fear of falling of these patients. This intervention is a home-based program combining exercises, home modifications and education on fall risk factors.
Epidemics and infectious diseases in general, punctuate much of the activity of an emergency service. The impact of winter infections is particularly important to vulnerable populations such as infant during bronchiolitis epidemics and the elderly during seasonal influenza. Each year, these epidemic phenomena lead to disorganization of emergency services and healthcare teams by lack of anticipation and organizational measures in particular to manage the approval of emergency services for the most vulnerable populations requiring hospitalization. For 2 years, the pediatric emergency department of St Etienne University Hospital has a decision support tool for the periods of winter epidemics. Through a retrospective analysis of Passages of Emergency summary, this tool provides an estimate of infants with bronchiolitis flow day to day, and the availability in real time of an abnormally high flow of patients to pediatric emergencies. These data can help to affirm that the epidemic begins in this hospital.
With an ageing population, hip fractures are likely to become a significant public health burden. Hip fracture surgery is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patient outcomes and experience underpin the National Health Service (NHS) Constitution in driving quality improvement and performance. We aim to conduct a qualitative research study to ascertain the important patient and carer reported experience measures following hip fracture surgery in the elderly to improve quality of care and service provision. To learn about patient and care-giver experience to ascertain which aspects are important to patients and what can be improved.
The objective of the PREDOMOS study is to evaluate the impact of establishing a Program of geriatric and Social intervention associated techniques of Domotic and Remote assistance (PS-DR) on the improvement of quality of life of elderly patients, isolated or at risk of isolation, treated for locally advanced or metastatic cancer.
The overall objective of this study is to test for perturbations in intraoperative electroencephalogram (EEG) , cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption (CMRO2), oxygen extraction fraction (OEF), and serum and cerebral spinal fluid biomarkers associated with delirium in high risk population having elective hip arthroplasty at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC).
ARPEGE project fits within the general framework of maintaining functional autonomy in the frail elderly. The early identification of elderly people at risk of frailty is essential to be able to make corrective actions to maintain a quality of life desired by the person. ARPEGE offers tracking and monitoring based on a corpus mobile evaluation of frailty, that could be used in various environments (home, prevention center, office of the general practitioner, geriatric consultation), and manipulated intuitively by professionals not specialists. This four-year project spearheaded by the University of technology of Troyes in partnership with the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne also brings a set of partners and experts in the region and outside, so that the proposed solution has the qualities necessary for its deployment in terms of value diagnostic, use, acceptability and perfectly controlled ethics. The Region has made "longevity aging" theme one of its priorities. This image of driver of innovation in this area can only be enhanced by a program like ARPEGE. Beyond the scientific and technological results expected, one can imagine the potential socio-economic benefits if this tracking solution is deployed on a large scale.
Telemedicine-based care provides remote health and social care to maintain people's autonomy and increase their quality of life. The rapidly aging population has come with a significant increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases and their effects, and thus the need for increased care and welfare. This solutions give a new opportunity for diagnosis, treatment, education, and rehabilitation, and make it possible to monitor patients with a number of chronic diseases. It also reduces socioeconomic disparity with regard to access to care and gives equal chances to patients from urban and rural areas. This a randomized trial of telemedicine versus usual care alone to reduce hospitalization and emergency hospital admissions for Nursing Home Residents . After an initial assessment , each participant is monitored by teleconsultation on six occasions over 12 months. Patients with usual care have an initial and a 12 months assessments.
Objectives: To describe social and health care provided to our older patients who have been admitted in the emergency department (ED) after suffering from a hip or wrist fracture due to a fall. To compare among the different hospitals and town halls, the health and social care that participants received. To compare the functional dependency and health related quality of life (HRQoL) presented by the patients immediately and six months after a fall. Methodology: Prospective Cohort study. One hundred and fifty patients suffering from each type of fracture (hip or wrist) will be recruited consecutively in the Basque Health System's participant hospitals sub-project. Within 3 sub-projects, more than 3000 cases are expected to be collected. Data will be collected from ED and hospital clinical records and by means of questionnaires to measure functional dependency (Barthel and Lawton indexes) and HRQoL (SF-36) requesting information on status before the fall, immediately and six months later. In addition to this, data referred to care provided to the patients by traumatologist, rehabilitation or primary care provider as well as social services in their homes after the index episode will be collected.
To develop and implement a physical activity promotion intervention for older adults with or without chronic disease living in an urban environment.
The main purpose of this study was to investigate if a six months period of physical exercise, could improve motor memory consolidation in elderly people on pedal dexterity