[Modalities of hospitalization in emergency of institutionalized patients].

Background And Aim: Institutionalized people represent 9 to 37% of the patients hospitalized in emergency. The aim of this study is to clarify practical conditions of decision and realization of an hospitalization in emergency from an institution.

Patients And Method: This is a prospective and descriptive longitudinal study of the hospitalizations in emergency of institutionalized elderly during six months, from 11 nursing homes.

[How to manage gait and balance disorders among older adults aged 65 years and older with mild to moderate dementia in clinical practice?].

Gait and balance disorders are frequent in demented older adults. Their management (i.e.

[Transfusion in clinical practice in geriatric wards].

Purpose: In the absence of specific recommendations on blood transfusion in elderly subjects, we carried out a survey to assess transfusion practices in geriatric medicine.

Methods: A descriptive, national, cross-sectional survey was conducted in 14 French geriatric departments (12 teaching hospitals and two general hospitals). In each department, five patients receiving transfusions were randomly selected in order to analyze their characteristics, the indications of blood transfusion, the criteria for and the methods of transfusion compared with Afssaps recommendations on transfusion thresholds.

[Emergency admission of eighty year-old and older patients. Characteristics and health care channels].

Objectives And Methods: The primary objective of this study was to describe characteristics and health channels of all octogenarians admitted during a 12 weeks period from two emergency units (EU) (A and B). To do so, an investigator collected data from each EU from the patients and medical teams. The secondary objective was to compare health channels between the two EU.