Anxiety symptoms during COVID-19 in older adults with psychiatric disorders.

Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic, older people and patients with psychiatric disorders had an increased risk of being isolated. The French National Authority for Health has recommended a reinforced follow-up of these patients. Cross-sectional studies reported an increased risk of developing anxiety and depression during pandemic.

[Anxiety, depression and coping evolution during the Covid-19 pandemic in older people with psychiatric diseases].

Introduction: Lockdown over the Covid-19 pandemic might have had a major impact on people's mental health. The present longitudinal study was aimed to explore the impact of the two first lockdowns on anxious and depressive symptoms of older subjects suffering from psychiatric disorders and to highlight their strategies to cope with the stress induced by these lockdowns.

Methods: Twenty-one outpatients from psychogeriatric units benefited from a follow-up visit phone.

[Does the care for the fear of falling bring a profit to community living elderly people who had experienced falls?].

Introduction: fall is common in old people and has multiple consequences, physical but also psychological, with a fear of falling which results in reduction in the activities of everyday life, loss of autonomy and entry in dependence. The aim of the study was to evluate the benefit of taking into account the fear of falling in the care of old people who had experienced falls.

Methodology: old people who experienced falls and with a good cognitive status were followed in a day hospital during one year.