Predictive capacity of the modified SEGA frailty scale upon discharge from geriatric hospitalisation: a six-month prospective study.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to describe the predictive role of the modified SEGA frailty scale on nursing home admission, readmission to hospital, falls and mortality.

Material And Methods: We performed a prospective, single-centre cohort study in patients discharged from a geriatric hospital ward between July 2016 and February 2017, with follow-up of six months. Patients aged 65 and over who were returning home from hospital were included.

In-home physical frailty monitoring: relevance with respect to clinical tests.

Background: Frailty detection and remote monitoring are of major importance for slowing down, and/or even stopping the frailty process in home-dwelling older people. Taking the Fried's criteria as a reference, this work aims to compare the results produced by a technological set (ARPEGE Pack) with those obtained by usual clinical tests, as well as to discuss the ability of the Pack to be used for long-run frailty remote monitoring.

Methods: 194 participants were given a number of geriatric tests and asked to make use of the ARPEGE technological tools as well as reference clinical tools to feed Fried's indicators.

[The suitability of sending nursing home residents over 75 to emergency departments].

The care provided to elderly people aged over 75 must be specific and multidisciplinary. An emergency department, which is seeing increasing numbers of patients passing through its doors, notably with the provision of an ambulatory care service, would not appear to be a suitable place for this fragile population, often with multiple pathologies. A study is looking at the suitability of the emergency department for nursing home residents, who have regular access to medical care, unlike elderly people living at home.

Identification of the period of stability in a balance test after stepping up using a simplified cumulative sum.

Falls are a major cause of death in older people. One method used to predict falls is analysis of Centre of Pressure (CoP) displacement, which provides a measure of balance quality. The Balance Quality Tester (BQT) is a device based on a commercial bathroom scale that calculates instantaneous values of vertical ground reaction force (Fz) as well as the CoP in both anteroposterior (AP) and mediolateral (ML) directions.