Wandering in a dementia special care unit: behavioral aspects and the risk of falling.

Background: Wandering is a common phenomenon among patients with dementia. While traditionally considered to be a behavioral problem, it also includes fundamental aspects of motor performance (e.g.

Management and 1 year outcome of oldest-old hospitalized heart failure patients: a subacute geriatric hospital survey.

Background: Guidelines are frequently under-implement in older patients with heart failure. Octogenerians are often excluded from clinical trials.

Objectives: To characterize the clinical profile of the oldest-old (age > or =80 years) heart failure patients hospitalized in a subacute geriatric hospital and to evaluate their management and 1 year outcome.

Delirium in an acute geriatric unit: clinical aspects.

Delirium is a common event in geriatric hospitalized patients. A prospective study was performed in order to characterize predictors, features and outcome in an acute geriatric care unit in a general hospital in Israel. The tools used to detect delirium were the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) and the Delirium Rating Scale (DRS), supported by clinical observation by an experienced geriatrician.

[Inflammatory Bowel diseases in the elderly].

Although often regarded as a disease of young adults, Inflammatory Bowel Disease occurs with greater frequency in the elderly than is generally anticipated. Due to the comorbidity in the elderly, the precise diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease is overlooked. There is a tendency for both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis to involve the distal colon in older patients.

[Infective endocarditis presenting as polyarticular septic arthritis].

We report acute polyarthritis in an 86-year-old man which was initially considered to be an exacerbation of osteoarthritis. After a delay of a few days a diagnosis of septic polyarthritis as an initial symptom of infective endocarditis was made. Although rheumatic manifestations in infective endocarditis are common, septic polyarthritis is rarely seen.