[Predictors of functional decline of older persons after an hospitalisation in an acute care for elder unit: importance of recent functional evolution].

Objectives: To identify the predictors of functional decline of older persons after hospitalization in an Acute Care for Elder unit (ACE).

Methods: Retrospective observational study based on a population hospitalised in ACE unit in Grenoble University Hospital. Dead patients within hospitalisation and patient fully disable or already hospitalized 15 days before hospitalisation were excluded.