Rehospitalization following a stay in geriatric rehabilitation wards: rates and predictive factors.

Unlabelled: Hospitalization in the elderly patients is highly associated with morbi-mortality. Geriatric post-acute and rehabilitation care wards are designed to provide care and to implement life project of elderly patients. Objective of this study was to characterize rehospitalizations after a stay in geriatric post-acute and rehabilitation care wards.

[First year prognosis of patients hospitalized in an acute geriatric ward with a known dementia or newly diagnosed].

In France, only a third of demented patients have an established diagnostic of dementia. Hospitalization is often an opportunity to perform a diagnostic of dementia. Real benefits for patients of such a diagnostic process are unknown.

Patterns of loss of basic activities of daily living in Alzheimer patients: A cross-sectional study of the French REAL cohort.

Background/aims: To characterize loss of basic activities of daily living (BADL) in 687 Alzheimer's disease (AD) community-dwelling patients included in the French REAL cohort.

Methods: Patients had mild to moderately severe AD, and the mean age was 77.8 years.

Patterns of loss of abilities in instrumental activities of daily living in Alzheimer's disease: the REAL cohort study.

Background/aims: To determine patterns of loss of abilities in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) in community-dwelling women with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Methods: Sixteen French university hospitals included 471 consecutive women with mild to moderately severe AD (Mini-Mental State Examination scores between 10 and 26) from April 2000 to June 2002 in the noninterventional REAL cohort. At inclusion, 6 and 12 months, IADL were assessed with the Lawton scale.