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Filter by:This study involves patients who will be discharged from Montpellier University Hospital (acute geriatric care unit) between January and March 2020. The primary objective is to assess the number of difference(s) in patient's medicines between the discharge from hospital (acute geriatric care unit) and one month after this discharge. The secondary objectives are: - to assess the number of changes of medicines between the patient's admission and discharge from hospital (acute geriatric care unit); - to evaluate the number of inappropriate medicines in patient's treatment at hospital admission (in acute geriatric care unit) and one month after the discharge from hospital; - to evaluate the number of failures found in the transmission of information between the hospital and the general practitioner/pharmacy one month after the patient's discharge from hospital (acute geriatric care unit).
Social deprivation is a state to which older adults may be exposed, leading to adverse social, psychological, and health outcomes. Social deprivation may be more sensitive than socioeconomic status for predicting adversity while using only a few items for evaluation. However, there is no practical assessment for social deprivation in older Canadian adults. Two indices that capture a broad picture of social vulnerability have previously been developed for older Canadians. Using participants in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), the overall objective is to examine and compare the associations of the COAD score and index, as well as the Keefe et al. and Andrew et al. indices with prevalent and incident adverse social, psychological, and health outcomes in participants at baseline assessment.
The overall objective of the proposal is to examine the association between depression and the newly reported "motoric cognitive risk" (MCR) syndrome, which is a pre-dementia syndrome combining subjective cognitive complaint (i.e.; memory complaint) with objective slow gait speed, in the Canadian population, with the baseline assessment of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). The Canadian and global population are continuously aging. Moreover, the number of individuals affected by dementia is on the rise. One good predictor of dementia is Motoric Cognitive Risk (MCR) syndrome. MCR syndrome is a highly prevalent, newly defined syndrome that combines slow gait and subjective cognitive complaint. Depression is also highly prevalent in the older population and can affect both cognition and gait. Thus, an overlap between MCR and depression is possible. Yet few studies have examined the association between MCR and depression, thus emphasizing the importance of further investigating this association. This project encompasses determining the association of MCR syndrome with depression in the Canadian context as a step to better understand MCR syndrome in Canada.
The study evaluates the association between the neurocognitive decline and falls.
The study is a randomized study of patients living in four municipalities in Eastern Jutland. After geriatric assessment half of the patients will be offered a tailor-made intervention in their homes. The follow-up will last for at least 90 days and include treatment of the patients' multimorbidity, e.g. of dehydration, anaemia, infections, and malnutrition. The other half of the patients, the results of the assessment and recommendations will be given to the patients and their general practitioner. The primary efficacy variables are accomplishment of planned cancer treatment, reduction of complications and admissions to hospital and increased quality of life,. If geriatric assessment and a tailor-made follow-up result in a better quality of life with less complications and admissions the offer may be extended to a longer period, younger age groups and other cancer diagnoses.