[Response to the urgent need to train family doctors in geriatrics : residency in long term care facilities].

Family doctors have to provide the geriatric cares needed by an aging population. In particular, the increased complexity of care needs in the population living in long term care facilities (LCTF) raises several challenges. One of these challenges is the adequate training of physicians working in LCTF as well as the next generation.

Qualitative Evaluation of a Pilot Physician Training Program in Long-Term Care Facilities in Switzerland.

Increasing demand for long-term care facilities (LTCFs) and increasingly complex medical needs of LTCF residents necessitate recruiting new physician graduates and developing programs which provide them with experience and specific skills in geriatric and palliative medicine. We developed an educational program for physicians in training, which combines 1 year of immersion at 20% full-time equivalent with (1) theoretical teaching, (2) clinical exposure under the supervision of a senior LTCF physician, and (3) structured case presentations and debriefing with experienced geriatricians. This article presents a preliminary qualitative evaluation of this program from the perspectives of the trainees, supervising physicians, and public health stakeholders.

[COVID-19 infection in the elderly in French-speaking Switzerland: an inventory of beliefs, convictions and certainties].

Most patients hospitalized for COVID-19 are aged over 70 years old, and half of those who die are over 83 years old. Older patients do not always present with typical symptoms (fever, cough and dyspnoea) but sometimes are and remain asymptomatic (contact screening), or have aspecific presentations (altered general condition, falls, delirium, unusual fatigue). Rectal swab, which minimizes exposition risk, appears useful in long-term care patients with diarrhea.

[Management of infectious diarrhea in nursing homes].

Infectious diarrheas are of great concern in nursing homes and can engender outbreaks. Their importance in terms of morbidity, mortality and health economics justify the implementation of prevention and control measures. Although past studies emphasize the importance of infectious diarrheas occurring during hospitalization, data on nursing homes epidemiology remain scarce.